Evening Gazette

              ★ z. PITTSTON, PA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1889. ' TwucEitrs | Ten Vent* • Week NUMBER 2-208 I Kmklr EiWklUlied 1850. j HURON'S GREAT HORROR. MRS. BARRETT'S INSANITY. JUDGE LYNCH RAMPANT. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. DR. TALMAGE IN BlYROUf. GLADSTONE FOUR SCORE. shock to the people, Monarchists and Republicans alike. The regret is very general, for she was greatly loved, and her charities and good works were innumerable. She was, in fact, held in higher estimation than Dom Pedro himself. It is generally admitted that she was scrupulous in avoiding Interference In political affairs, though in all things that the emperor- did she took the deepest interest. VERY LITEST Eleven Persons Lose Their The Judge Explains Why She Was Con* fined In a Dresden Asylum. Wholesale Execution of Negroes in South Carolina. Presh News from the Wires Carefully Culled. The Grand Old Man Celebrates New Yoiuc, Dec. 80.—A cablegram was printed Sunday to the effect that the wife of Judge Barrett, of the New York supreme court, had been confined in an insane asylum at Dresden by order of her husband, and that she claimed to be sane. The Chicago Herald has published, what purports to be a true story of the scenes in the jury room at the Croniu trial. By it Juror Culver is shown to have been the only man who voted to save Burke from the gallows. ■' His Christmas Time Sermon on Christ's Earthly Kingdom. His Eightieth Year. Lives by Fire. Special Telegrams to 4 P. M. A FUTILE ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. AS A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED. MR. PARNELL IN A DIVORCE SUIT. EIGHT RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. To-Morrow'» Indications. Pair. Colder. Northwesterly wind*. Dom Pedro's Property Not Confiscated. | |Wa8HINGT0N, Deo. C*).— Dr. Valente, the Brazilian minister, has joceived the following telegram, dated Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 29, from Ruy Barbosa, minister of finance under the new government: "We observe that the European press continues to accept false rumors as ground of accusation against us. The property of the imperial family has not been confiscated; on the contrary, the decree guaranteeing it allows the imperial family two years' time for disposing of the property. What has been cancelled is the allowance assigned by law and the subsidy which was granted by the provisional government." Nicholas Grass, His Wire, Eight Children and • Guest Burned to peath In the Judge Barrett, on being shown the dispatch, said the facta were these: He married his wife twenty years ago. Some years afterward she began to show mental peculiarities. He then learned for the first time that insanity was hereditary in her family. Her mother died of softening of the brain. Her father, Mr. Fairfield, was known as "the crazy poet." Her grandfather died of insanity. Her sister has been for twenty-flve years in the Georgetown Insane asylum. Both her brothers died insane. prisoners and Witnesses Alike WA« Taken from Jail by a Band of Lawless Masked A mob of several hundred men raided the jail at Barnwell Court House and took out eight negro prisonors charged with murder. The prisoners were taken out of town and shot to death. Capt. O'Shea Accuses the Great Irish Thrilling Suggestion* of the D»j and Place. "The Sky Anthem"—The Armies of the New Kingdom Were Not as Armies of Stall Clad Warriors—Glorious Hopes. A PLOT OF HIS ENEMIES. Leader of Vndue Intimacy With His Grass Residence at Huron, Mich. A Men and Shot to Death The Jailer's Wife—Death of the Ex-Empress of Bra- XJlst of the Dead. Thrilling Story of the Tragedy. Wiliiam ivfoj or, of Mount Vernon, N. Y., while insane, killed his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Depew, and his little granddaughter, and then hung himself. Thai Parnell Brands the Dlroroe (alt of sil—News from Abroad. IsHPbBMiNO, Mich., Dec. 30.—At Huron,* town near Houghton, Mich., where two women and a baby were burned to death a few d»ya ago, eleven persons perished Sunday morning. Nicholas Grass, aged 57, and his wife, Mary, aged 47, returned from an old people's dance early in the morning. Their son Theodore, Jr., returned from his work in the stamp mill. A short time afterward all went to bed. Charleston, 8. C„ Dec. 80.—The one topic of conversation her* is the lynching of tlDe eight negro prisoners at Barnwell Saturday. Full details of the awful crime have been received and all nnite in denouncing It as an outrage against humanity. Not only were the principals charged with the murders of whites lynched, but aocesaorlea before the fact and even witnesses met the same fate. The people of Barnwell town knew nothing of the crime until they awoke on Saturday morning. How the prisoners were taken from the jail Is beat told by Jailer Neville's statement, which he gave as follows: Beyrout, Dec. 24.—The Rev. T. Be Witt Talmago, D. D., of Brooklyn, who is hers with his party, preached today to a group of friends 011 "The Sky Anthem." His text was Luke ii, 14: "Glory ttD God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," on which he delivered the following dis- IiOHDON, Dec. 30—After two days' delay Charles Stewart Parnell has at last been heard from. A letter published in to-day's issue of the Dublin Fiuman'i Journal from the great Irish lead9r says that he has as yet received no official notification of his being named as co-respondent in the divoroe suit brought by Captain O'Sbea. Iu regard to the statement of O'Sbea that the alleged intimacies took plaoe at a bo. sa Dear Regent's Park two years sgo he admits that he paid fr. quant visits to this place, but declares it was with O'tihea's full knowledge and consent, indeed, upon his invit aions Tbe same reply is made to tbe charges in relstion to the residence on the Ksphnnde, at Brighton. In regard to the meaning of the suit, Parnell declares that it is brought at ihe instigation of Huston, with a view to creating a popular sentiment adver-e to him (Parnell) and thereby to pcale down tbe damages in tbe libel suit against the Times. Capt. O'Shea. London, Dec. 80.—The eightieth anniversary of Mr. Gladstone's birth absorbed so much attention as to make of this quiet Sabbath a day of national remembrance. Telegrams and letters of congratulation and admiration poured into Hawarden from not only all quarters of England, but literally from all parts of the world, many coming from Australia, America and India. All the members of the Gladstone family branches were gathered at Hawarden to meet and greet their eminent kinsman. The church attended by Mr. Gladstone was crowded at the morning service, and a large throng remained outside, unable to gain admittance. Mr. Gladstone took his usual part in the service, reading the lessons, and said a few words of devout thankfulness for the blessings of health and friendship. Ten people ware killed in a wreck on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad near White Sulphur, W. Va. Mrs. Barrett'* eccentric and insane actions caused her busband much trouble for a number of years. Her chief delusion was that people were trying to poison her. She finally went to Europe to escape tho poisoners. Her condition has steadily grown worse. The Judge hesitated long as to what duty required him to do. Finally Mrs. Barrett's actions attracted the attention of the Dresden authorities and of United States Consul Mason. Upon advice of physicians it was deemed best to send the lady to a retreat for the insane, where she is receiving the best of care. Judge Barrett has always tried to induce his wife to return and live with him, but she would not do so, and seemed happy only when flitting from place to place in Europe. She had tried to get a divorce, one of her delusions taking the shape of baseless jealousy, but the judge woulA not consent to a divorce, regarding it as bis duty to her and his daughter to care for her as his wife so long as she lived. Three people were burned to death at San Francisco and a fireman fatally injured. Alexander Beck Sc Son, carpet manufacturers, of Philadelphia, have assigned, with liabilities estimated at (180,000 and assets of $100,000. course At last I have what I longed for, a Christmas eve in the Holy Land. This is the time of year that Christ landed. He was a December Christ. This is the chill air through which he descended. I look up through theee Christmas skies and I see no loosened star hastening southward to halt above Bethlehem, but all the stars suggest the Star of Bethlebem. No more need that any of them run along the sky to point downward. In quietude they kneel at the feet of him who, thongh once an exile, is now enthroned forever. Fresh up from Bethlehem, I am full of the scenes suggested by a visit to that village. You know, that whole region of Bethlehem is famous in Bible story. There were the waving harvests of Boaz, in which Ruth gleaned for herself and weeping Naomi. There David, the warrior, was thirsty, and three men of unheard of self denial broke through the Philistine army to get him a drink. It was to that region that Joseph and Mary came to have their names enrolled in the census. That is what the Scripture means when it says they came "to be taxed," for people did not in those days rush after the assessors of tax any more than they now do. LA GRIPPE'S 8PREAD. Ineffectual Attempt at Bescue. Tlio Disease In Full Swing on Two Con- A quarter of an hour later Theodore, Jr., heard screams in his sister's room. He and his brother Nicholas, aged 17, attempted to reach the next room, but the flames drove them back. With bare feet and hands they broke the glass and sash of the only window in the room and jumped to the ground, attired only in their night shirts. George W. Sarvin, an instructor of mathematics at Harvard college, is dead, aged 29 years. London, Dec. 30. —The epidemic of influenza continues and there are no signs of an improvement. In Munich the disease is increasing. In Berlin it is accompanied by dengue fever, not affecting the nose, larynx or windpipe, but attended by rheumatism and a rise of the temperature to about 104. The symptoms disappear in three days. Many of the officers of the Berlin garrison are affected, and about one-third of the military workmon at Spandau are ill with the disease. tlnents. Jailer Neville's Story. Philadelphia, Dec. 80.—Eight persons were-shaken up and injured by the derailing of a car on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Eighteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The train was going very slowly out Pennsylvania avenue when the rear axlo of the last car broke, which threw it over on its bid-*. car was dragged a short distance before the train was stopped. The injured are: Mary B. Brightenburg, Reading, Pa.; Mrs. Boehmer and child, Lebanon; Miss J. H. Gassett, Bridgeport; Laura Swan, Bridgeport; Alice Richmond, Ella Davis and Kate Davis, Philadelphia. Eight Men Injured. "About half-past 3 or 3 o'clock Saturday morning some one knooked at the gate. I got up and opened the window and asked who was there. Some one in the crowd said, 'My name is Black, from Martin's Station, with a prisoner. Come out and take him.' I told them to hold on until I got ready. I dressed quickly and went out as usual to receive a prisoner. A terrible blizzard was raging and they could not get in the windows. They then rushed to a neighbor's for help. The Are was extinguished an hour later and eleven bodies were reoovered. The scene was such as Shakespeare might have had in mind in describing the ideal old age—surrounded by troops of friends showing love, honor and obedience. Besides those who might have been expected to send congratulations as a matter of course—personal friends and political admirers—many contributed whose offering of remembrance attracted more than ordinary attention. Among these may be mentioned the Countess Tolstoi, the speaker of the house of commons, and a number of prominent Unionists. In all Mr. Gladstono revived 300 telegrams and 500 letters of congratulation. The first telegram received was from the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Ideal Old Age. .The publication of this letter has been ft general.topic of talk all day. O'Sbea still refuses t'C sty anything to the newspap* rs. He itolares that his talking will be done in the courts, and will ba tucked up by dntss, proofs and affidavits The friends of Paraell reply to tlrs by declaring that, as O'Stiea had twice tried to ''get eveu" wit'i ttje Iriih leader for the letter's dropping him some twp years ago, once by charges which brought about Lis expulsion from the Irish pa'ty, and again in the tafctimony be volunteered in the suit before the Pa-nell commit ion, which was palpably false, his present rue is but a third attempt at chancier blackening. Tbey ray there is ab olutoly nothing uew in the charts aa the same scandal wai gone over two yeara airo, upon O'Shea being ignored by Paraell. The latter, ihey say, will not tw irjurnd by the prosecutions of such mauif st traitors. A Million Victims In Knrope. Paris, Dec. 8a—The number of deaths from influenza is increasing, and the residents of the city ore manifesting a panicky feeling. The condition of M. de Freycinct, minister of war, has changed for the worse. Drs. Brouardel and Proust have been attacked and are seriously ill. It is estimated that there are upward of 1,500,000 victims of the influenza on the continent. They were the remains of Nicholas and Mary Grass, and their children Lena, Katie, John, Antoine, Mary, Lizzie, Joseph and Michael, and Lena Brb, of Lake Linden, Mich., who was visiting the girls of the Grass family. A List of the Dead. A Desperate Burglar's Crime. "I unlocked the gate, and as I opened It • mob of masked men rushed in on me. They demanded the prisoners from Martin's Star tion and asked me where they were. I told them they were in jail. By this time they had taken the keys from me, but told me to go and unlock the doors. I told them I would not, that they must unlock the doors themselves, as they had the keys. In Bushed a Mob. Chicawo, Dec. 30.—At 11 o'clock Sunday morning a startlingly bold burglary was committed in a private house in the central portion of the city. At that hour Mrs. J. W. Miller, who occupies the second flat at 88 Sixteenth street, stepped out, leaving a young servant girl in charge of the flat. The girl answered a ring of the door bell. Opening the door a man placed his foot so that the door could not be closed. He then drew a dagger and ordered the girl to stand aside. Stepping-inside he turned and bolted the door. Then, holding the blade of the dagger close to her breast, he ordered her to sit down in a chair where he tied and gagged her securely. The thief then started to plunder the establishment, breaking open drawers and trunks and securing $30 in cash and about $100 worth of jewelry. He was finally frightened away by a knock at the door, making his escape by the rear staircase. Mrs. Shibley, the occupant of the upper flat gained an entrance and cut the gag off the servant's bead. The girl was almost suffocated and suffered severely from nervous prostration. An Actor Murderously Assaulted. The bodies are in a temporary morgue, the Houghton fire engine house. St. Louis, Dec. 80.—John Rsffel, one of the comedians of the "My Aunt Bridget" company, was the victim of a murderous assault Saturday night at the hands of Manager Robert Munroe. Raffel had given the usual two weeks' notice that he intended to leave the company. The two weeks expired, and after the performance met Munroe on the stnge. They quarreled, and the manager drew a knlfo and cut Rnffel three times about the n*rk and face. The aolor was carried to the city hospital, where his wounds wero pronounced dangerous. Munroe got away, but the police are confident of arresting him. BURNED BY MOLTEN METAL. The village inn was crowded with the strangers who had come up by the command of government to have thoir names in the census, so that Joseph and Mary were obliged to lodge in the stables. Tou have seen some of those large stone buildings, in the center of whioh the cpmels were kept, while running out from this center in all directions there were rooms, in one of which Jesus was born. Had his parents been more showily appareled, I have no doubt they would have found more comfortable entertainment. That Might in the fields the shepherds with crook and kindled fires were watching their flocks, when hark I to the sound of voices strangely sweet. Can it be that the maidens of Bethlehem have come out to serenade the weary shepherds! But now . a light stoops upon them like the morning, so that the Socks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleating to their drowsy young. The heavens are filled with armies of light, and the earth quakes under the harmony, as, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rings over the midnight hills: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men."» It seems that the crown of royalty and dominion and power which Christ left behind him was hung on the sky in sight of Bethlehem. Who knows but that that crown may have been mistaken by the wise men for the star running and pointing downward? Abbury Park, N. J., Dec. 80—La grippe has made its appearance in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. There are noarly thirty cases in the two towns, and the physicians are kept busy watching their patients. Several of the cases have been very severe. Dr. Hugh B. Kinmouth, one of the leading physicians here, is in bed with the disease. Over In New Jersey. The Men Pouring It Into a Mold When It Exploded. Threatened with Death. Parnell Is Co-respondent. Dallas, Tex., Deo. 30.—By an explosion of molten lead at the Mosher Machine company's foundry nine men were horribly burned, some of them fatally. The names of the more seriously injured are: "The crowd then went to the door of the jail, with the keys unlocked it and shoved me in the jail ahead of them. As I struck the second jail gate, which is of iron, they told me to take the keys and unlock it I refused to do it, and then they threatened to shoot me, drawing pistols, I told them I could not unlock that gate, and they sent down to the yard for an ax and said if I did not open it they would knock the whole d d thing open and let the prisoner! oat. Just before the crowd got to the gate that leads to the cells and rooms I told them if they were determined to go into the jail to give me the keys and I would unlock the gate, but asked them not to torn out any of the prisoners except those they wanted," London, Dec. 80.—O'Shea's sensational move to drag Parnell into the divorce court was not unexpected. He has beefl threatening to do it ever since the commission adjourned. He has now filed a petition asking for a divorce from his wife on the ground of her infidelity, naming Charles Stewart Parnell as the co-respondent. In his pleadiugs O'Shea simply burnishes up the charges he made two years ago about Parnell's intimacy with his wife and supplements it with specific accusations up to last month, based on the report of a private detective employed by him. He names a house near Regent's park which Parnell was in the habit of visiting, and also a prominent house on the Esplanade, Brighton. He merely sues for divorce, making no claim for damages. Dobbins, J. A., molder; body, head and neck terribly burned; will probably die. New Cases In New York. FIFTY WORKMEN BURIED New York, Dec. 80.—Pour cases of la grippe were reported at Bellevue hospital Sunday. Two were brought In by the police ambulances, and the other two came to the hospital unassisted. Hughes, John, molder; both eyes burned out; whole body seared; may die. Newark, N. J., Dec. SO.—Samuel Eugene Johnson, a colored hostler, two years ago married Nancy Van Glesen. He abused her so badly that the fled to her parents. Johnson made fruitless attempts to induce her to return home. He went to the boat in which her parents lived and fired several shots at her father and brothers. The balls sped wide of the mark and Johnson fled. When the policeman found him at bis horiie he drew a pistol and shot himself in the head. His recovery is doubtful. Attempted Murder and Suicide. The Walls of the New St, Louis Academy Mateon, , foreman; breast, neck and arms terribly burned. of Muslo Suddenly Collapse. Hurst, Charles, back burned in two places so that flesh fell away to the bone; lost much blood; will bq permanently disabled. St. IiOUIS, Deo. 30—The new Academy of Uusic, just being erected, collapsed this sfteruoon at 2 o'ol Dck. The fourdations were in secure and gave way under the Immense weight of the heavy ■tone arches and brick work. There whs r o warning. The walls fell in sn instant. Fifty workmen are btl.eved to be buried beneath the ruins. Cincinnati, Dec. 80.—The influenza has made its appearance in this city. Fully 500 genuine cases have been reported here, but of a comparatively mild form. Fully BOO 111 at Cincinnati. Wheeler, John, workman; severe burns. The mold was prepared for a 1,800 pound piece. The explosion was due to formation of gas as the metal was being poured in. A Strange Murder. Witnesses and Prisoners Alike Went. O'Shea May Prove His Case. Lured Like Dr. Cronln and Assaulted. Denison, Tex., Dec. 30.—H R Greenhill, a prominent cattleman of the Indian territory, has just narrowly escaped assassination in this city. A man on horseback called at the residence of Mr. Greenhill on Walker street and handed him a note, which requested that he call at the home of Patrick Collins in a distant part of the city, as Collins was dying. Greenhill, while en route to the home of his friend, was attacked by two men, one of whom attempted to stab him, but Greenhill sprang to one side and escaped the thrust of the knife. He then ran, when one of the would be assassins fired a pistol, the ball grazing the Side of his head. When he arrived at the home of Mr. Collins he found that gsatleman in excellent health. The motive which led to the attempted assassination is a mystery. Atlanta, Ga., Doc. 90.—James F. Woodward has just died in this city. On Thursday night last Woodward, who is a well known business man, was walking on Marietta street when a man stepped up to him and asked if he was "Jim" Woodward. Receiving an affirmative answer the stranger drew a pistol and shot Woodward in the breast. Woodward walked to his sister's house, a mile or two away, and told the ■tory as here given. He treated the matter lightly and thought he would get well, but a relapse ended in death. The police are looking for the murderer. "They themselves took the key, unlocked the door, went into the jail and took out first Mitchell Adams, who was charged with the murder of J. J. Heffewnan. Then three of them carried out Judge Jones, Robert Phoenix, Peter Bell, Hugh Fura, Harrison Johnson and Ralph Morrall, ail colored. Bell was charged with the murder of Robert Martin, who was mysteriously killed at Martin's Station last Saturday. Hugh Fura was in as au accessory to the killing, and Ralph Morrall and Robert Phoenix war* held as witnesses, but were supposed to have been accessories to the crime. Judge Jones and Harrison Johnson were bald as witnesses. Sinoe O'Shea testified before the Parnell commission that Parnell has not recognized him, it has been known that he was waiting for revenge on his former leader. But whatever may be the result of the trial, the case has .been discounted so often that the effect on Mr. Parnell's personality will not be disastrous It Is possible, however, that O'Shea will b/4 able to prove his assertions, since it is kiDJwn that Parnell made his home with the /('Sheas for many years, and there he used to retire from the world, his address being know n to only a few of Mis particular friends. Madrid, Dec. 80.—The influenza continues to spread and has appeared in most of the large towns of Spain. Spreading In Spain. rt Is Constitutional, A Paralytic's ADyful Fate. Roohwtbr, Dec. 30.—The General Term to-day dismissed the Kemmler appeal, and if- Armed the const tuiionaliiy of the electrical execution law. Peru, Ind., Dec. 30.—J. E. Clark, a partial paralytic, an aged resident of Kokomo, went to George Wrikle's bathrooms for a bath. Clark was almost helpless and had to be assisted by Wrlkle. Wrikle turned on the gas to heat the water, and started to do something else while waiting. Being forgetful, he forgot all about Clark and left the house, after locking the bathroom door. Clark's body was found in the morning cooked and roasted. Wrikle and two of his employes have been arrested. WAS MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE Mrs. Robert Tyler Dies In Montgomery, Aged 74. My subject, in the first place, impresses me witb the (act that indigence is not always significant of degradation. When princes are born heralds announce it, and camion thunder it, and flags wave it, and illuminations set cities on fire with the tidings. Some of us in England or America remember the time of rejoicing when the Prince of Wales was born. You can remember the gladness throughout Christendom at the nativity in the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious Prince was born there was no rejoicing on earth. Poor and growing poorer, yet the heavenly recognition that Christinas night showB the truth of the proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. PURITY IN POVERTY. Bate of Discount Raised. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. SO.—Mrs. Robert Tyler died in this city Sunday in the 74th year M her age. Mrs. Tyler was a daughter of the tragedian Thomas Cooper and Mary Fairlie, a celebrated belle of New York. London, Dec 30—The Bauk of England to-day announced an increase in the rata of discount to six per cent. O'Shea Mnit Have Known. In 1840 she married Robert Tyler, eldest son of President Tyler, and upon the special request of the president and his wife, who was an invalid, she presided as "lady of the White House" during the first three years of President Tyler's administration. Washington, Dee. 80.—The cheoks just mailed by United States Treasurer Huston for an amount aggregating about $7,600,000 in'payment of interest Jue Jan. 1, on registered 4 p r cent, bonds, were all punohed with figu.-ea representing the amount for which they are drawn, and are the first checks so marked ever issued by the treasury department. The idea of punching the checks originated with Treasurer Huston, and it is intended as an additional protection of the Interests of the government in preventing the raising of checks. Checks for millions. "We'll Kill Them Right Here." is a dangerous disease. From its tendency to extend to the throat, bronchial lubes, a 4 finally to involve the lungs iu consumptive diseases, it should be promptly cured, that these grave dange s may be averted. fo confident are the manufacturers of Dr. 8age's Remedy of tbeir ability to copo tuccetsfully witb thCs prevalent disease, that they have for years offered, io good faiti, $500 reward for a case of catarrh, no matter bow bad or bow many years (fencing, which tfcey cannot cure. Remedp only 6* cent", by druggists. Masai Catarrh But O'Sbea is not a man whose word is considered of any account 80 long as he was a member of the Parnellite party he vras not averse to courting and allowing favors to the leader, and if any relationship did exist between Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea it was generally thought to be with the consent of the husband. Mr. Parnell has so far never spoken a word on the subject, and until he is heard it will be well to postpone judgment upon him. He has never been considered an immoral man, and he would be thought the last man in the world to betray a friend. O'Shea's disloyalty to the Irish party, from which be was virtually expelled, has long been a matter of notoriety, and when he gave testimony as a witness in The Times forgery case against Parnell he brought upon himself the scorn of Englishmen and Irishmen alike. "The crowd next roped the eight prisoners, brought them down stairs and marohed them through the principal street*, compelling me to go with them. We got seventy yards across Turkey creek, which is about a quarter of a wile away. They stayed there some fifteen or twenty minutes, and the crowd asked the prisoners a good many questions. "After talking to the prisoners I heard some one in the crowd say: 'We'll kill them right here.' I asked the guard who had me In oharge to carry me back to the bridge, as I did not want to see the negroes killed. The crowd that had me said I should not go back. About that time two or three men ran up, caught hold of me and told the guards who had me in charge to carry me back to the bridge. lie Suicided In a Cliuroh. San Mateo, Cal., Deo. 30.—Jame A. Figart, supposed to be from San Francisco, committed suicide by cutting his throat in the Catholic church here last night. Figart, who was a btranger here, appeared at the ohurch in the afternoon and seemed to be behaving under great excitement. He went back to his hotel, but came to the church again in the evening. He was very devout during the services, and when they were ended, committed suicide, as above stated, before any one could interfere. Senate Committees in Mew lork. Brooklyn, Dec. 30.—Frederick W. Stedefeldcr, proprietor of a bakery at 301 Floyd street, was awakened about 3 p. m. by his little girl, who told him the gas, which he usually leaves burning low, had gone out Stedefelder found that the gas supply had been cut off. He went down to the cellar to examine the meter. As he entered the cellar he was shot at by a man who succeeded in escaping in the darkness. The bullet slightly wounded Stedefelder in the shoulder. He reported the case at the police station. Officers sent to examine the premises found in the cellar a hat which Stedefelder identified as belonging to Albert Maiser, a baker whom Stedefelder had discharged some time ago, and through whose efforts the Bakers' union had been led to boycott Stedefelder. Maiser was arrested at his lodgings, and confessed that he had secreted himself in the cellar and turned off the gas. He had intended to turn it on again and suffocate the family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. Stedefelder and three small children. Stedefelder came down stairs and spoiled the plot and he then decided to shoot him. Maiser was locked up. A Fiend's Plot Frustrated. Washington, Dec. 30.—Two special senate committees left Washington Sunday for New York. One is the committee appointed to look into onr trade relations with Canada. Senators Hoar (chairman), Allison, Butler, Dolph, Hale, Pugh and Voorhees make up this committee. The members have engaged rooms at the Hoffman house, and will probably hold their sessions there. The other is the committee on transportation and sale of meat products. Senator Vest is its chairman, and the other members are Senators Plumb, Manderson, Farwell and Coke. Senator Vest's committee will probably hold its meetings in the poatofflce building. In all ages there have been great hearts throbbing under rags, tender sympathies under rough exterior, gold in the quart*, Parian marble in the quarry, and in every stable of privation wonders of excellence that have been the joy of the heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations were born in homes without affluence, and from their own privation learned to speak and fight for the oppressed. Many a man has held up bis pine knot light from the wilderness until all nation* and generations have seen it, and off of his hard crust of penury has broken the bread of knowledge and religion for the starving millions of the race. Poetry, and science, and literature, and commerce, and laws, and constitutions, and liberty, like Christ, were born tn a manger. All the great thoughts which have decided the destiny of nations started in obscure corners, and had Herods, who wanted to slay them, and Iscariots, who betrayed them, and rabbles that crucified them, and sepulcbers that confined them until they burst forth in glorious resurrection. Strong character, like the rhododendron, is an Alpine plant that grows fastest in the storm. Men are like wheat, worth all the more for being flailed. Some of the most useful people would never have come to positions of usefulness bad they not been ground and pounded and hammered in the foundry of disaster. When I see Moses coming up from the ark of bulrushes to be the greatest law giver of the ages, and Amos from tending the herds to make Israel tremble with his propbeci'js, and David from the sheep cote to sway the poet's pen and the king's scepUr, and Peter from the fishing net to be the greac preacher at the Pentecost, I find proof of the truth cf my proposition that indigence is not always significant of degradation. A well known sheriff living in Maine, waa given up to die with what his phnsieiaq exiled Consumption. A friend advised Mm to try Puritan Cough and Consumption Cure, recovery followed, and the doctor now utes it for ooughs, colds and col sumption. '1 rial bottles free at J. H. Houck, druggitt. A Yankee Sheriff Frightened. New York, Dec. 80.—Nothing of interest regarding the trouble on the Erie railroad was disclosed Sunday. A number of the members of the grievance committee remained at their hotels, some went to church and others visited friends. The committee transacted no business, and will do nothing until they have presented their list of grievances to General Manager Thomas today. A member of the committe says that every effort will be made to avert a strike, as they are not desirous of causing the company loss or trouble. The Erie's Threatened Trouble. One Dead, Another Dying. Wilmington, Del., Dec. 80.—An accident happened on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad at the west yard in this city, which has caused the doath c f one man and may cause that of another. Clarence Conwell, a freight conductor, and Frank Orrell, a fireman, were conversing on a track near their train when an approaching Delaware division passenger train struck them. Conwell has died and Orrell Is fatally injured. Many Shots Fired. "One man on each side of me walked me back, and I, with the guard, sat there twentyfive or thirty minutes before the crowd left me. About thirty minutes after they were gone they commenced firing. It seemed to me they kept firing five or six minutes. I imagine ISO shots were fired la that time. The guard then said, 'Let's go up the road where the party are firing.' I mounted a horse that a man was leading and rode up the road some 250 yards before the firing ceased. Oporto, Dec. 30.—The ex-empress of Brazil died of heart-disease at Oporto Dec. 28. Dom Pedro has been fairly deluged with telegrams and letters condoling with him for the loss of his wife. Death of Brazil's Ex-Empress. Philadelphia Elks' Maw Home. Philadelphia, Dec. 80.—The new hall erected by the Philadelphia Lodge of Klks, at No. 332 North Ninth street, was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies Sunday afternoon. The servioes were interesting and impressive. The new building oovers a lot 25 by 126 feet, and is a handsome four story brick structure with a highly ornamental front The lodge room is one of the finest in the country, and there are also in the building a handsomely furnished reception room and a large banqueting hall, besides several fine rooms for rental to other societies.P The last utterances oi the ex-empress were expressions of regret that she could not be surrounded by her children, and that she could not return to beautiful Brazil. It is thought that her husband's adversity hastened her death. Her Last Words of Regret. Professor Keeler in Jail. Philadelphia, Dec. 30.—A special to The Press from Sea Isle City, N. J., Bays: "The steamer Commonwealth, bound from Philadelphia for New York, freight laden, came ashore on Townsend's Inlet bar early Sunday morning. As the vessel lies in a dangerous position with a brisk southerly wind blowing, |and a high sea tide running, fears are entertained for her safety. A request has been made for assistance. No one has yet left the vessel." Ashore Near Sea Isle City. Amsterdam, N. Y, Dec. 80—J. Howard Keeler, a professor of penmanship and mathematics in the Packard institute, on West Twenty-third street, New York, has been lodged In the city prison here. He was arrested in New York on a bench warrant charging him with fraud in having disposed of school property in this city that had been mortgaged, without making the purchaser aware of the fact. He had previously con ducted a business college here and incurred many debts. "We wont a few steps further, when we met the crowd returning to town. They scorted me back to town, and bidding me good night said I could go to bed or go tell the sheriff that they had wound it up. The crowd then dispersed." "God's Will be Done." Wichita, Kan., Dec. 30.—Word oomes by wire to the authorities here of extreme suffering in Stevens and adjoining counties in the southwestern part of the state. The storm has reached here with unusual and unexpected violence. Many of the people there are without food and many without fuel, and as a result the distress at present is pitiable. The officials of Stevens reached nearly all the counties of the Arkansas valley with messages praying for relief in the way of food, clothing and money with which to buy fuel. They urge great haste in tho matter, as but a few days would in numerous instances prove fatal. For the past four years the crops have been failures, but the impoverished farmers, hoping for better times, did not move away. Kansas Farmers Starving. Upon arriving at the bedside, just after life had passed away, Dom Pedro knelt and kissed the forehead of the dead. He remained motionless and without speaking for a long time." When he had somewhat recovered himself he said to a friend that he had experienced the bitterest trial that Qod could inflict. The faithful and affectionate companionship of his wife had sustained him for forty-six years. "God's will be done," be added. Then noticing the eyes of the dead still open be broke down and wept, exclaiming, "Is it possible that these dear, kind eyes will never again brighten on seeing met" He closed and reverently kissed the eyelids. He asked to be left alone, and remained a long time. Grain Receivers Organise. Minneapolis, Dec. 80.—The Grain Receivers' association has been permanently organized. The object of the association is mutnal protection in the business of handling grain and other property offered for sale on the Minneapolis market, also the correction of errors and abuses of whatever nature. The laws provide for the appointment of several committees, the most important of which is that on transportation. This will have charge of freight ratee, switching charges, demurrage and all other business connected with the railroads. The ghastly scene at the place of execu tion is thus described by a man who inspected it: "The bodies were lying on the roadside. When we reached there at 9 o'clock the bodies of Johnson and Adams had been removed, but the others were undisturbed. The mob divided the murderers, putting the Hefferman slayers on the left of the road and the Martin murderers on the right The negroes' euros were pinioned and tightly tied to trees with strong ropes before they were shot. They were not hanged, however. It is impossible to describe how many shots each man received and where they were struck, as their bodies and heads were Httrally torn to pieces. ■MM The Scene of the KxeeutlM. UMBRELLAS. A Hoboken Suicide. Robert Oarrett's Illness. Hoboken, N. J., Dec. 30.—Edward C. Moller, a young married man, killed himself last night at his home, 100 Hudson street, by blowing out his brains. He leaves • widow and three children. He was the son of Christian Moller, the sugar refiner, who committed suicide about eight years ago. No cause can be assigned for the suicide.  The Safest Place to Buy Baltimore, Dec. 30.—MrT Robert Oarrett is in very poor health. At times he is very much depressed, and occasionally becomes very excited. He is still at his country place, Uplands, near Catonsville. A consultation of several doctors from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore was held at Uplands two weeks ago, but Mr. Oarrett's friends have not been encouraged by the reports from his physicians. Them at BE^HN'S T ARTHUR'S . COURT. /3L» X# JLUaA, Turnip iW/Mut *L 4rrHC, 14 ' /4*u7m' irti&JLf *Y // , *-JLi , W  4)CUv /3aaaxC' . AGENTS WANTEOV AK«£a444n. ,/RA^MY, f«vt66 /t-  )TH00SAN0S or OOLL ARS. *f / &Lu$A*MU. rfS*,-3 / Vvdft ■^IKV^chX'. The San-Salvador Revolution. My subject also impresses me with the thought that it is while at our usoful occupations that we have the divine manifestations. Had those shepherds gone that night into Bethlehem, and risked their flocks among tbo wolves, they would not have heard the song of the angels. In other words, that man sees most of Qod and heaven who minds his own business. We all have our posts of duty, and, standing there, Qod appears to us. We are all shepherds , or shepherdesses, and we have our floclia of cares and annoyances and anxieties, and we must tend them. Dora Pedro Overcome. A Young Woman's Despair. City of Mexico,.Dec. 30, via Galveston.— Telegrams from the republic of San Salvador received here state that the revolutionists in the department of Cuscatlan are retreating before the government troops sent against them; that the government troops are in hot pursuit, and that the revolution is of no importance. The remains will be temporarily deposited in a mortuary chapel in the La pa convent here, and will be afterwards taken to Lisbon for interment in the royal Pantheon. The municipal authorities of the city, returning in full state form from the celebration of the king's proclamation in the cathejlral, went to the hotel of the ex-emperor to offer their condolences, but Dom Pedro was so overcome by the event that he could not receive them. The cardinal archbishop also called. Fined SSO for Whipping a School Girl. Marshall, Me., Dec. 30.—C. P. Cloud, a teacher in the public school at Walnut Grove, was tried by Squire Arear for whipping a pupil, the 15-year-old daughter of Douglas Jones. The charge was assault and battery. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and assessed the punishment at a $50 fine. Lawrence, Mass., Dec. 30.—The body of Miss Sarah T. Nichols was found froaen in the ice of the Merrimac river near this city. Miss Nichols, whose home was in Belvidere, was recently swindled out of 11,000 by Charles Metcalf. She had been despondent over this fact, and undoubtedly committed suicida Blushing ami Married at Eighty. Laurel, DeL, Deo. 30.—Goldsborough Jones is.. married, and Greenwood, in this county, is agitated with surprise and mirth. Goldsborough is 25. His bride is 80. Her name was Annie Simpers, and in spite of her long terrestrial residence was so Bhy at the ceremony that she refused to participate until the lights were turned down, ".hen the minister made them man and wife. "Mitchell Adams was tied to the post which marks the corporate limits of Barnwell. Just to his right his aooompUoa, Ripley Johnson, was fastened to a tree. The Martin murderers on the other side of the road were arranged in line. Mrs. Stewart's Suicide. "Some of the negroes were old men, Morrall possibly being 00 years old, and Peter Bell about the same age. Some of the unfortunate men had their eyas shot out, others were wounded in the chest and face. Blood covered the ground upon which they laid, and a more horrible light could not be imagined." He named the cases of Stewart shooting Mr. J. L Brown, the killing of Robert Martin, the shooting of Mr. Joe Dickinson by Jasper Bradham and the shooting of Mr. Nat Weekly by an unknown negro. Sheriff Lancaster was at home when the Jail waa attacked, and was greatly surprised whan he heard of the shooting. He does not apprehend further trouble and has no guard at the jail. A Horrible Death. Nor walk, Conn., Doc. 80.—In an old barn near Stratford a spirited cocking main oocurred between fowls owned in Bridgeport and Fort Jefferson. Fifteen pairs contested in the match, which was finally in favor of Port Jefferson. A Spirited Cocking Slain. Two Bojs Drowned While Coasting. Washburn, Wis., Dec. 80.—WarnieBurns, the only son of William Burns, and Johnnie Finlayson, son of John Finlayson, both aged 7 years, were drowned in the bay opposite the pump house here while coasting from the shore on to the ice. The bodies were recovered.New York, Dec. 80.—Mrs. Robert Stewart, the wife of the superintendent of telegraph of the New Jersey Central Railroad company, has committed suicide by jumping overboard from a ferry boat between Jersey City and Brooklyn. Her body has not been recovered. "diligent in business, »KB vent in spirit." We sometimes hear very good people say: "If I had a month or a year or two to do nothing but attend to religious things, I would be a groat deal better than I am now." You are mistaken. Generally the best people are the busy people. Elisha was plowing in the field when the prophetic mantle fell on him. Matthew was attending to bis custom bouse duties when Christ commanded him to follow. James and John were mending their nets when Christ called them to be fishers of men. Had they been suoring in the sun Christ would not have called their indolence into the apostleship. Gideon was at work with the flail on the threshing floor when he saw the angel. Saul was with great fatigue hunting up the lost asses wben he found the crown of Israel. The prodigal son would never have reformed and wanted to have returned to his father's house if he had MS tsrat C•D"D tuuaneas. tnoush it was The ex-Empress, Princess Senhora Theresa Christina Maria, was born March 14, 1823, the daughter of Francis I, king of the two Sicilies She was married to Dom Pedro Sept 4,1843, she being then 21 and he 18. In 1844 ason, the Prince Imperial Dom Alfonso, was born to the imperial couple, but he died in the following year. In 1846 the Princess Isabella was bdrn, and in 1847 her sister, the Donna Leopoldina, of whom the elder one only survives, the wife of Count d'Ku. The empress spent her long married life In assisting her husband in contributing to the charities of her adopted country. In every way she was an exemplary woman and princem- Sho had been empress forty-seven years. A Sketch of the Deceased. Alliance, O., Deo. 80.—The boiler .f the engine at Fieger's coal mine, three miles east of this place, exploded, fatally scalding the engineer, Thomas Wool man. The explosion resulted from mineral in the water oorroding the boiler. An Engineer Fatally Scalded Pittsburg, Dec. 80.—The engine Tooin and warehouse of the Wormser Glass company, on Second avenue, together with their contents, have been entirely destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $5,000.  A Fire at Pittsburg. Trustee's Sale. A •04.000 Blaze. A Fatal Steamboat Collision. By virtue of authority vested In tha undersigned under tlm wills of Mm. J yd la Steele and George P. 8lee'edCceC»*ed there will be aiposed to PUBLIC 8aLB AT AUCTION. a quirtliyof Household furni ure superior quality comprising parlor, bed room, dining room and fci ctien furniture, ca pet-, pictures etc., late the estate of Mrs. Lyola Bterle, deceased a leo a tine ( utter an ' harness and sundry other a' tlc'ee or personal property, late the rstate of George P Steele deceased. Time of sale TUEsDaY. JANUARY Tth, two, at 10 o'clock a. m. lace of sale the laie residence of said deceased, corner of Susquehanna avenue and Parke street, West Plttston. Terms of rale ca h San Francisco, Dec. 80.—A special dispatch from New Westminster, B. C., says the buildings occupied by the Columbia Printing company, Lyal & Co., stationers, and Wolfendal' Brothers, grocers, were destroyed by Are, together with Cuttings tn's stovo depot. Loss, $64,000. London, Dec. SO.—The steamers Ovington and Queen Victoria collided Sunday during a fog on the river Clyde. The Ovington was so badly damaged that she sank almost instantly. Five persons were drowned. The Queen Victoria was damaged, but remained afloat. Killed by His Tenant. Honora, La., Dec. 80.—Capt. T. A. Wood was killed by Ernest Lapayranz, a tenant, upon Wood's plantation. The cause of the tragedy was a misunderstanding between the men growing out of business relations. The Association Wishes Washington. Washington, Dec. 30.—The Post says the American association is trying to place an association ball team in Washington, and thus fill the gap caused by the desertions of several of its clubs. Bow on and Meyer to Fight. Miss Cook's Alleged Betrayer Arrested. Verdict of the Coroner's Jury. New Orleans, Dec. 80.— It is reported that a two ounfce glove contest between Andy Bowp'j, of this city, and Billy Meyer, of Chicago, has been agreed upon, the light to 'ake place in this city In about ten weeks i root date for $2,500 a rida. Brooklyn, Dec. 80.—Howard F. Terrell, accused of ruining Lillie Cook and procuring the malpractice whioh caused the girl's death, has been arrested In Saratoga county by Brooklyn officers, and will be brosyht back here. - Salem, Mass., Dec. 30.—George A. Collins, the largest jeweler in Salem, has assigned. His liabilities are $25,000; assets, $18,000 or $20,000. Bridges & Carroll, shoe manufacturers, are reported to be embarrassed. A Jewelry Failure. The verdict of the coroner's journey is as follows: "That the aforesaid parties came to their deaths by gunshot wounds inflicted by the hands of party or parties unknown." The negroea threaten to immigrate from the county in » bod/. _ * «*&-' The Itewe In Brazil. That Hacking Couch can Be so quickly cured by Ehlloh's Cure. We guarantee it. ■old by all druggists, A. J. MERR1FIELD, Trustee. O. 8. Ferris Atty. dtd Rio ds Jameiro, Dec. SOL—The news of the death of the ex-empress came as a great PEERIES8 DYES £££&?C££ [CONTINUED Oil SECOND IA0E.J