Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1881, Page 6

& THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY,: APRIL 17, 1881-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. et e e © CRIMINAL NEWS. The Chief Editor of the Cleveland “ Penny Press " Arrested for Criminal Libel. Ai’oung Man in Laurinburg, N. ' C.;Murders His Sweetheart % with an Ax. A Negro Saloonkeeper Stabbed to Death for Refusing to Sell 1 Liquor to Boys. A Herder Kills Two Women and a ) Child at San Antonio, Tex. A Man Murders His Wife and Mother- in-Law and Then Kills Himself. A WOMAN LYNCHED. CHARLESTON, S. C., April 14.—A dispateh to the News and Couricr gives the particu- fars of the lynching of Judy Metts, a colored woman, at Martin’s Depot, Laurens County, on the 9th inst. It states that on Sunday night, the 3d inst., the barn of Mr. J. 8. Bla- iock, at Martin's Depot, was set on fire and surned. Thebarn was near the dwelling- house. so near that the inference was that it was the purpose of the incendiary m_buru the dwelling also. Mr. Blalock made inves- tigations which satistied lim that the incen- diary was anegro woman named Judy Metts, fiving on his place. On Saturday, the 9}11 imst.. he went to Trial Justice N. S, Hm'fls, t Clinton, and swore out a warrant against she woman. TheTrialJustice placed the war- rant in the hands of Constable Samuel Gary, who arrested Judy Metts about § o’clock on Saturday night and started with her to fon. ‘Two miles above Martin’s Depot and opposit Mr. H. M. Hunter’s a party of men on horseback overtook the Constable and his prisoner. ‘The party were disguised, having cloth over their faces, with eveholes to see through. Some of the party took charge of the Constabie and others took the prisouer, and they carried thein off in different direc- tions. The Constable says that he was kept about an hour and was then told to *git,” which he accordingly dia without delay, going to Clinton. The woman was found the next morning about 200 yards from where the lynchers teok lier, hanging by the neck toa tree about twenty feet from the ground. She was cut down on Sunday. The Coroner’s inquest on Monday returned a verdict that she came to her death by hang- ing at the hands ot persons unknown to the jury. Shewas buried on Monday by the colored people. Nothing has been done, so far as I have heard, to discover the lynchers. The woman leav husband and children. ‘The same woman was accused two years ago of byurning the dwelling-house of aMr., Simp- son, but she was never tried for it. A MURDEROUS LOVER. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, LatriNoree, N. C., April 16.—A sort of social reunion which took place about five miles from here last night was the scene of one of the most bloody and unexpected trag- edies ever enacted at a party. Sim De Berry, one of the company., was at the time talking to Ann Murphy. There had been, it is un- derstood, some coolness between them, but they had made up and were considered good friends. Nobody was very close to themat the time, but from their manner and gestures it~ was - evident that. a warm discussion had sprong up between them. The young woman raised her voice and said something in an angry tone to De Berry, and his face was seen to flush up, and he rosesuddenly and went away. It waus plain that she had said something which he did not like, but as it was presumed they might be conversing upon subjects of a deli- cate and sentimental nature, no one said anything, As De Berry went away it was supposed that he had gone home. But in- stead of this he went to the wood- pile . in the yard and icking up the ax came back. Without saying a word he went up to where the young woman was standing, and, before any one could interfere, sent the butt end of the BX crashing upon hier head. With a low ery she fell. De Berry then rushed away, and has not been heard from since. She will die. THREE-CARD MONTE MEN. ST. Lotss, April 16.—The Missouri Pacific Railroad detectives made a clean capture of three-card monte wen at California on ‘Thursday evening. Three sharks have been making Sedalia their headquarters, from which. point they worked trains both ways, until the Company - determined to put a stop 1o the system of plundering passengers. Re- turning from Kansas City Thursday, they sought out the inevitable greenhorn, who never reads mewspapers, and his pockets were soon emptied by betting on the wrong curd. The Joser raised considerable commo- tion on the car, wkich the detective heard of, when he boarded the train at Sedalia, Look- ing through the train the detective recog- nized James Boyd, the champion monte man of the country. ~Two accomplices were with Diim, William Atkins and another party, The detective succeeded in capturing Boyd and Atkius, " YOUNG DEJARNETTE. DANVILLE, Va., April 16.—In the case of Dejarnette, on trial for the murder of his sister in a disorderly house, Dr. R. K. Greg- ory, of Greensboro, N. C., testified as an ex- pert,and said that, from all evidence as taken and heard by him at this trial, he be- lieved thas the prisoner was insane; that he was suffering from delusional insanity. All the evidence has now been heard except that of Dr. Grisson, Superintendent of the Lu- natic Asylum at Raleigh, N. ‘who will be examined as an expért 1o-mo; W morning. ‘The younger sister of the prisoncr appeared as o witness tor the defense this mornmg, and testitied to his kindness to herand to the sister whom he shot, and their mother. The eeting between ler and the prisoner in open court was a distressing scene. A TRIPLE MURDER GarvesToN, Tex., April 16.—The News’ San Antonio special- details a horrible triple murder about seven miles from that city. John Simmons, a heavy stock-owner, left home on Sunday. Yesterday a herder named J. S.Phillips went out with his sheep. About noon Mrs. Simmons was found lying in the hierder’s rooms, her throat cut, and, from ap- pearances, had been outrageously assaulted. Analarm was given, and soon the body of her child and Mrs. Simmons’ mother, Mrs. Tarker, were found at the foot of an em- bankment 100 yards from the house, their gkulls crushed In with a rock. The herder seems to think Simmons is the murderer, but he himself was committed without bail. THE SEQUEL T0 AN ELOPEMEXT. Toms River, April Gustave Ileinrich, a music-leachier and orzanist, who deserted Lis family at Tuckerton last fall, eloped with oue of his pupils to San Francisco, where he was arrested by the girl's father, has been Indicted by the Ocean County Grand Inquest on three charges, namely: Iarcency, procur- ing malpractice, and seduction. The trial was set for Tuesday next. It is said that the accused man is so iil that he will not be able 10 appear for trial, A NORTII CAROLINA ELOPEMENT. Rareien, N. C., April 16.—W. J. Munden, a mewmber of the Lower House of the Legisla- ture from Pasguotank Connty, eloped. on MMonday, 11th inst., with Jthe wife of J. A. .'Jlf;lmson, ord\\'uod\ le, Perquimons County. hey curried off a large a y Johuson is about 5 years of age. Thereis 10 clew as 1o their whereabouts. b CRIMINAL LIBEL. Speeial Dispateh to The Chicago Tridiine, CLEVELAND, 0., April 16.—Edward W. Seripps, principal editor of the Pcnny Press, Was arrested this afternoon charged with publishing a criminal libel op Edyyin Cowles, editor of the Leader, and gave bail in $500 for his appearance before .a Justice of the Peace next weck. Thelanguage complained of as libelous was the publication in the Press of the statement that Mr. Cowles, who suflers from an impediment of speech, lost | the roof of his mouth by youthful indiscre- tions. Mr. Cowles has also commenced erim- inal proceedings against B. W. Seripps, JI. L. Seripps, J. 5. Sweeny, publishers of the Press, to recover damages to the amount of 830,066 for the same publication. The_oflice was attached, buta bond in the sum of $60,- ven, and work on the paper was continuet STABBED TO DEATII. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Ricuyoxp, Va., April 16~To-night a white man, accompanied by two boys, went into a barroom kept by Posey Drew, a mulatto; The place was in what is known as ** Cash Corner,” one of thelowest portions of the city, sometimes known as the “Five Points ” ot Richmond. Drew’s bar fronted on the dock, and the rear was a-sailor’s dance-house, the resort of low women. The boys called for drinks, and Drew told them politely that he must decline to sell whisky 10 boys, and said-the barroom was no place: for them. An altercation then ensued, dur- ing which the three jumped on D stabbed him to death. Their names are nn- knowa, and so far they have eluded arrest. TWO MURD AND SUICIDE. SAN Fravcrsco, Cal., April 16.—A Chico dispatch of last night says Henry Swearin- gen, aresident of Dayton, seven wiles from here, shot his mother-in-law, Mrs, David Boucher, killing her instantly. 1fe nextshou his wife in the arm, ed her, and, placing a pistol to her breast, fired again, with fatal effect. He then Sent a bullet through his own brain. There had been some fawily trouble between the parties, but a men imder- standing had been reached and Swearingen was to have left for Missouri in the morning. Mrs. Boucher was the widoyw of the late State Senator of Butte County. SYWIFT JUSTICE. LrrTLE Rock, Ark., April 16—A planter named Harrison, of St. Fraucis County, was robbed of £500 by three masked men, who entered his house at midnight, disarmed and gagged him, and, securing the plunder, es- caped. Pursuit was made shortly, and two of the robbers were captured, one of whom was mortally wounded, the others escaping. SENTENCED FOR LIFE. Derrorr, Mich., April 16.—The man Up- right, who deliberately shot his wife at Stan- ton, this State. a few weeks ago, was con- victed of murder yesterday and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life. CHARGED WITHH EMBEZZLEMENT, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridune. NEWw ORLEANF, La., April 16.—Aflidavits were made to-day against two more city officers under the Iast Administration for em- bezzlement. From appearances they will all he under arrest soon. CONVICTED OF MURDER. NAsHVILLE, Tenn., April 16.—The jury in the case of the Poe Brothers, whose threat~ ened lynehing created so much excitement at Winchester recently, rendered a verdict to-night ot murder in the first degree. MURDERERS ARRESTED. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Tlovsroy, Tex., April 16.—Charles E. Murphy and Tom Edwards, who murdered Jack Cook, of Gainesville, vesterday, have been arrested and lodged in jail. CASUALTIES. A TRAIN WRECKED. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. ToyEwooD, 1ll., April 16.—The trains of the Illinois Central Railway and the ** Kan- kakee Line” were delayed here several hours this morning by a serious accident to an early north-bound express freight. Dy the accident, which occurred just south of the station-house, several freight cars were forced from their trucks and some badly de- molished. From appearances at the scene of the wreck it was evident thatabrake or some attachment to one of the freight cars gave way, and, being dragged over the the frog at the south switch, caused the dis- location of the truck, thereby throwing a large portion of the train from the track. The wrecking-train was immediately tele- graphed for, and arrived at the seene about So'clock, and within a couple of hours the débris was cleared and the tracks repaired. The belated passengers were surprised and gratified at being able to obtain .copies of Tuk TRIBUNE lhere on the ar- rival of the wrecking-train. In fact, we obtained the paper herc earher than when sent out by the regular tr: Many congratulations were offered for thi Dbit of enterprise. T'his, it is said, is the time within a period of two years th wrecking-train has been catled into requi: tion on this division of the lllinois Central Railroad. CORONER’S VERDICT, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, PmApELPHIA, Pa., April 16.—The Cor- oner’s investigation yesterday into the cir- cumstances attending the death of Jolhn Cunningham, who was struck and killed by an engine on the New York Branch of the Pennsylvania Road on Friday evening, re- sulted in a verdiet censuring the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company for tailing to have a watchman at the point named. 'The testi- mony was to the effect that Cunningham was reading a paper while crossing the track, and paid mno attention to the ringing of the bell or the Dblowing of the” whistle; that the train was at the rate of from twenty-five to ve niles an hour, and that there was no watchman at the crossing. Engincer Yan Arsdale stated that upon reaching Jer- sey City he saw a man Iying in the’ devot ‘whom his brother had ran over and killed about the sume time. The accident oceurred at Margaretta strcet. BRIDGE DAMAGED. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Graxp 1IAVEN, Mich.,, April 16.—While the schooner Ottawa was being towed down the river by the tug Batchelor this evening, the heavy current threw her against the swing of the Ferrysburgh Railroad bridge, knocking an iron brace out of the frame, rendering it unsafe for trains to pass_over. Passen , on the mail west on the De Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad were brought fron: the bridge to Grand Haven by conveyance. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Graxp Havey, Mich., April 16.— Asterhoff, tor the t two years bridge- tender on the toll-bridge between Grand Haven and Spring " » was drowned this afternoon. lle was loosening some drift- wood which had accumulated under the swing-bridge, lost his balance, and fell in. His body not been recevered. e was an unmarried man, his mother living at Ferrysburg. A ITORRIBL. EATH. . Special Disoatch to The Ciicago Tribune. Prrrssena, Pa., April 16.—Annie Smith, a child 9 years of age, met with a horrible death in Allegheny City to- playmg with several other children in the back yard of her parents’ residence, when, from some cause, the floor of the cesspool gave way and she fell into it and was drowned. CAUGIT IN A BELT. Detrorr, Mich., April 16—William Brod- erick, aged 19, son of a widow Iady of this it 1s Killed this afternoon at the car s by beinz canght in a belt while trying to adjust it to a rupidly revolving wheel. FOUR LIVES LOST. St. Joms, N. B., April 16.—Dy the wreck of the schoouer Minnie at Ouaco four lives were lost. A POISONER. HARRISONBURG, V., April 16.—~Margaret Pryor, a negro woman, in Jall, chmjz;ed with atiempting to poison the family of T. L. Will- jams, the 18th of* February, 1881, will be ar- raigned next Monday. OBITUARY. CAPT. JOSEPI GARDNER, Sweial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribume. Erciy, 1L, April 16.—Capt. Joseph Gard- ner, for twenty-nine years a resident of Elgin, died last night of typhoid-pneumonia, aged 79 years. The funeral will occur Mon- dny. He leaves a wife and three children, the former one year his iunlor. being: also at the poiut of death. Capt. Gardner came from Gloucester, Mass., and was in early life asea-captain, sailing between this country and Mediterranean ports. {OLD PIONEERS. Speeial Dispatch 1o The Chicago Tridune. Broosixgroy, 1L, April 16.—William F. Flagg and Amos Barnard, two of our old pioneers, died to-day. Both came here about 1846, and have been identified with the growth of the city and county. Flagg died 3 mfrl Barnard from abscess of v Flagg was wealthy nntil 1572, and Barnard leaves a very large fort- une. + * LIEUT. JOIN LITTLE. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. W.arerrowy, Wis,, April 16.—News has Just been received here of the death at Rich- mond, X. M., of Lieut. John Little, U. 8. A., which oceurred Ieb. 20, aged 45 years. 1lis disense was pneumonia of the lub, The vas a resident of this vieinity until ng-out of the War, when he joined eventeenth Wisconsin Volunteers, and, when the War closed, commissioned a Licutenant in the regulag LOUIS ROACH. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Erciy, IlL, April 16.—Louis Roach, a farmer living in Plato, the township next west of Elgin, dropped dead in his wagon while driving home from this city to-day. 1le was under 40 vears of e, and had been married but two orthree years. Heart- disease is the vresumed cause. TTAMILTON 1I, HIOWARD. Rocunster, N. Y., April 16.—Hamiiton H. Tloward. appointed Consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, by President Hayes last Feb- v, died to-day. He had leave of absence for sixty days A SINGULAR SUIT. A Daughter Suex Her Mother for Money Left Eter by a Lover Who Perished on the Ili-Fated Steamer Evening Star, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, PrLapeLruis, Pa., April 16.—A Jove story with a life-insurance premium as the sequel of the loss of the lover’s lifc atsea was told by witnesses in a Philadeiphia court to-day. In 1566 John Truro, a young man, was paying attention to a girl named Anna Wright, who lived with her mother in this city. Truro found it necessary to go to New Orleans, and he took passage from New York in the ill-fated steamer Evening Star, which went to the bottom of the sea off the Florida coast, with the loss of nearly every soul on'board. Before departing for N Orleans, however, Truro tovk out an acei- dent pohey of $10,000 in the North American Transit Insurance Company, which at that time kad an oflice on Walnut street. The policy only cost T'ruro $10, and he had it made payable to Miss Wright, to whom he gave it before his departure for the Southern city. 1le was never afterward heard of. The young lady sought to collect the money, but the Insurance Company resisted, on - the ground that there were no proper proofs that Truro had perished, as some of the passen- gers and crew of the Evening Star had been picked up. Miss Wnght's law- yer, Henry R. Edmunds, heard that Truro and one of the officers of the Evening Star had Leen secen clinging to a span, and that the ofticers had been saved. But he was urable to find the man. Time drifted on until the summer of 187, when Afr. Edmunds was traveling in Europe. 1le had landed at 1lavre, and was whiling away a little time, loitering about the quays in that port, when he saw a man approaching, smoking a cigar. Mr. Edmunds pulled out a cigar and asked the stranger in Freneh for a light. The man acquies in brolken Frenel, when Mr. Edmunds dropped that language and tried the man in English, which the stranger spoke fluently. They chatted a while, when Mr. Edmunds, from a remark dropped, was astounded to find that this was the very person he had been looking forso long.. Further questioning brought out the fact that this identical person was the companion of Truro, on the broken spar of the Evening Star, and he told how they had floated for hours clinging to that forlorn lope, when Truro, exhausted by hunger, thirst, and exposure, had nted and goue to the bottom. The lawyer held his peace and ascertained that tlié stranger wasan oflicer on a ship at that moment lying in Ilavre, bound for New York. Ile kept watch of the matter, and when the ship arrived in New York the oficer was subpanaed, his testi- mony taken, the missing link restored, and presently the money was collected from the Insurance Company. Not all of it, how- ever, for the Cowpany gave up the - ghost. Deducting the expenses and fees, the sum netted $2,000, which was duly paid to Miss Wright, now, however, Mrs. Davenport, for she had in the interin married a baker named Davenport; and the couple are now living at Fortieth and Market streets. Mrs. Davenport, it apnears, gave the ney to her mother for safekeep- ing, and that is the last she saw of it. She says that her mother, after repeated de- mands, refused to return it, and finally she was ubliged to bring suit, and this was what brought the parties’ into Judge Biddle's court.. Mrs. Wright, who lives and Aspen streets, claimed a rig the money, alleging that Trury ga ;ml_uc‘y because she had lent him £2,000, which | d not repaid. The juryin a short time decided in favor of Mrs. Daven- vort, and gave her a verdict for $2; St il ool EVANSTON VILLAGE CAUCUS. Special Dispatch to The Chicapo Tribune. EvaNstox, ik, April 16.—The village cau- cus was beld last evening with the following result: ¥or Trustees, W. 1L Crocker. C.T. Gray, and J. C. Allen; Village Clerk, W. MeGary; Police trate, A. T. Coffeen; Trustees of the Free Public Library, W. E. Stockton and I1. G. Lunt, Alr. George 1. Ott did not enter the caucus, but will run as an independent candidate for Village Clerk, “Fhe election will occur next Tuesday, and at that time the questions will also be submitted as to buildmgz a new Town-lall and as to having “a tax of two mwills for the support “of the Public Library, in place of the one mill that is now levied, Previous to the caucus a town-meeting was held, in which the Trustees made a report, and the finances of e village were dis- cussed. The Village Clerk aiso read his annual report ——— TIRED OF LIFE, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. PuiLaprLeuts, Pa, April 16.—The City of Chester was thrilled to-day by a tragedy the like of which has not been commiitted in tuat city for many years. ‘I'he vietim was Mrs. Thorley, the wife of John Thorley, a wealthy manofacturer who came there some four years ago to spend the remainder of his daysina retired life. It appears that Mrs. Thorley has been under treatment for aber- ration of the mind. At times the disease had such control of her that she wonld ex- press a desire to kill herself. Her fam- ily kept constant watch over her lest she would in an unguarded moment destroy dier life. On Thursday the family moved Intoa tine new house Mr. Thorley had just purchased for their iuture home. - Mrs, Thorley and her daughter, a young \woman, were engaged this morning in‘arranging the houselioldf effects, and about noon the motker left the daughter und went up-stairs. Ina few minutes the daugiiter went to look for her mother, and was horror-stricken to find i . & ¢ hiel her lying dead in the yard in a pool of blood. She liad gone to the lgird story, jumped ont of the window to the pavement, 1 distance of about thirty feet, and broke her neck. . Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, LAFONTALY, * Ind., April 16.—Eurly this morning John E. Thomas, & son of one of Wabash County’s eldest physicians, com- mitted suicide at his home here by shooting himself through the head. He had for some time been despondent, brought on by a love matter, which led him to commit the decd. THE WEATHER. A TERRIBLE STORM. Special Dispatch to The Chifcago Tribune. Lirrre Rock, Ark., April 16.—Yesterday a terrible storm swept the northern part of Drew County, leveling houses, trees, and de- stroying human and animal life. On the plantation of William D. Ieddy three houses were blown done, one of which, occupied by Allen Hill (colored), wife, and seven chil- dren, was torn to pieces. In attempting to save oue of the children, ITill was hitby a piece of flying timber and killed. Two chil- dren were also crushed to death. A colored woman was blown into a tree-top, and was found dead, with her baby in her arms, which was uninjured. Two white women are reported dangzerously wounded. Others whose names eannot be_learned are said to be killed ur wounded. Seme valuablestock, cattle and horses, were likewise killed. Bed- ding and other clothing was blown five miles, STREATOR, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Strearor, I, April 16.—Yesterday and to-day the sun has shone -brightly, aud, the wind blowing from the southwest, the roads are fast drying up. This was the first Satur- day for a month that the farmers have been able to bring their produce to town. Lots of butter and ezgs came in, so that all can feast on eggs to-morrow. M’GREGOR, ILL. Spectal Dispatch to The Chtcago Tribune. McGreGon, Ia., April 16.—The farmers in Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota will be busy next week in seeding. Many have already commenced. The ground is‘in fine condition this season as compared with the previous seasons. Planting will not_be late unless wet weather interrupts. - Weather warm, MOUNT WASHINGTON WEATIIER. Mouxt Wasmxeroy, N. IL, April 16.—It has been snowing here since the afternoon of the Hth. There is moresnow on the summit and the drifts are greater than at any time before this winter.. Low barometor; tem- perature 14 dezrees; velocity of the wind, 100 miles, from the northwest. TO BE TAKEN WITH SALT. CrxciNyaTi, April 16.—A dispatch from Charleston, 1., reports greatdamage to win- ter wheat in that section. It says the acreage sown was very large, but the dumage of the last two weeks is so great that a large pard will be plowed up, and the rest is badly in- jured. xperienced in two years passed over last night, accompanied by rain and snow. ‘Three vessels are lying at the wharf, stuck fast and driven ashore. WITEAT-SOWING IN IOWA. Des Moixgs, Ia., April 16.—Wheat-sow- ing begun to-day in this section in places ex- posed to the sun, where the snow has gone. ‘The lowlands will not be fit for seeding for ten days. JMADISON, WIS, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Manisox, Wis, April 16—The weather Lias been very warm to-day. The snow is rapidly disappearing. DIXON, ILL. Spectal Dispaten to The Chicago Tribune. Drxoy, 1., April 16.—The ice went out to- day. Nodawmage. Everybody happy. SIGNAL SERVICE. Wasmmyeroy, D. C., April 16.—For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee, lower barome- ter, stationary or higher temperature, winds backing to southerly, and fair weather. For the Lower Lake region, stationary fol- lowed by falling barometer, westerly back- ing to warmer southerly winds, and fair weather. Tor the Upper Lake region, lower barom- eter, higher temperature, southerly winds, and partly cloudy, weather. 3 For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- souri Valleys, lower barometer, rising fol- by falling temperature in the latter district, and fair weather followed by in- creasing cloudin o he Mississippi will continue to rise at Memphis.. The Ohio_ will rise slightly at Cincinnati and fall at Pittsburg. LUCAL OUSERVATIONS. CHICAGO, Aprit 16— Toar. [ Ther. Hu [ Wand.| Vel [ 12" w oWl T 1| NWH 18 p. m, Wenther Tims. Meun barometer, . Meun thermon Meun humidity. 5L Maximum tenieruture, Minjmum temperature, GENEWAL OSERYATI CHICAGO, Apr)) 15—10:18 p. m. Ther|l Stattons. | 3150 Wind. |1en] s .. CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS., Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. NEW Onrreans, La., April 16.—Judge Thomas Payne and Controller Gurney, of Chicago, paid a visit to the Mayor and Ad- iinistrators to-day. Gurney charmed them Wwith an account of how taxes are paid in Chicago and public work maintained on a cash basis. A most astonishing problem was how her ¢ity bonds could be at a pre- wium, while hiere eity bonds never reach 5) percent, no public works are maintained, nd on about the same ta not enough collected to pay the salaries of oflicials. The heads ot buréaus here receive their pay the year around, -while faborers, teachers, and minor employés are without pay three or four months ¢very year. —_— INOPERATIVE AND VOID, MILWAUKEE, April 16.—In a test case to- day to determine the legality of the cele- brated Anti-Treating law of Wisconsin, it was found that the law' was inoperative, be- cause of error in the test of its supposed enactment. The bill as drawn specifies the Tepeal of an old “law that was dropved when the State statutes underwent their recent. re- vision. Judge Mallory held the law to be inoperative and v —— THE CINCINNATI STRIKE. CINCINNATI, April 16.—There is no change in the situation of the street-car strike. Sub- urban residents had to foot it this morning or secure private conveyances. Hackmen and express-drivers are doing remarkably well. All the lines are out and stopped, ex- cept Route 16, to Highland House and Wal- nut Hills, which is not consolidated, and paid the advance ac once. There has been no violence.. The strikers remain in force at the Compauy’s ofiice, Fifth and Wamur, and as @ car comes up Inanned new employés they take it from the track. It'is understood that the painters wil! hold a meeting to-night for the purpose of organizing astrike. Up to 1:30 p. m. the strikers were quiet and determined and no cars had been allowed to run. Cizersyarr, 0., April 16—10 p. m.—The railroad strike continues on all the Cincinnati consolidated lines and on the two Newport lines, It is attended with no in- cidents. Good order prevails. The com- panies are non-committal as to their policy. — ——— IRELAND AND AMERICA. Views of a Dublin Commercial Man Regarding the Business Outlook In the Two Countries. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Mrowaukee, Wis., April 16.—J. M. Kearns, of the firm of Kearns & Crocker, Fleet street, Dublin, heavy commission men, now on a short visit to Milwaukee, was interviewed by Tue TRIBUNE correspondent to-night. His former residence in the United States enables him to judge more correctly the status of the commercial affairs of this coun- try as compared with that of Ireland at the time he sailed for America. Thus far his observations have satisfied him of a steady and sound condition ‘of business in the United States, and the prospects of a steady lwprovement as seon as navi- gation on the great chain of lakes is resumed. - Asto affairs in Ireland, he con- firmed the expression that the agitation there between landholders and tenantry had in a nieasure been detrimental to the business interests of that country. Speculation is at an ebb there, and'will so remain until the vexed questions aresettled. The reserve of the moueyed circles isas it has been in the United States during certain critical periods, and as it was on the eve of the late Presi- dential election, when it was feared thata political change would involve a change in the financial policy of the Government. It was no sooner settied here that the financial policy of the past Administration would be continued than speculation was resumed, and, should the land question in Ireland be satis- factorily adjusted, the same brightening of business would ensue there. Mr. Kearns de- clared that the excitement incident to the land_question is far_below the dexree of in- tensity the people of the United States, and of other countries, may imagine from the highly-colored reports by the newspaper cor- respondents. “The bill of Mr. Gladstone, he thought, would allay the ill-feeling between the landlord and_tenant, if it really covered the three main claims of the tenantry, But he feared a closer consideration of the states- man’s measure would disclose modilications that would in part defeat the object of the Land-bill reforms. EX-.COMMISSIONER POWER. What Ife Ias fo Say Regarding the Charges that He Made Fraudulent Sunlex of Northern Pacitic Railroad Lands. Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tridune. St. Pavr, Minn., April 16.—A TRIBUNE correspondent to-day questioned “ex-Land Commissioner Power, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, as to the ground and motive for the suit against him, alleging fraudulent sales of this Company’s lands for his own protit. Mr. Power has just returned from New York, and only knew of the charges through the newspapers. Ile at first refused to be interviewed, but, being persistently questioned and cross-questioned, finally ut- tered in substance the following: * Thiscase is now in the courts and all replies of the de- fense will be made there. There is no grounds for the complaint, not any. 1 nave ars regarding the investigation of the beginning with my first trans- ith the Northern Pacitic down to th day Isevered it. My defense will be m in the courts and not through the columns of the newspapers. 1repeat, thereis no foun- dation for the charges, and do not fear any investigation that may be made by railroad oflicials, business-men, or by the courts. 1t would be improper for me to make any de- fense while the case is in court. 1am confi- dent that my friends who know me will sus- pend judgment until the evidence is fully de- veloped. I have nothing further to say.”” ———— THE HUNTING SEASON, Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Lixcory, Neb., April 15—The warm weather of the past few days has created a fever among our local sportsmen, and half the able-bodicd men of the city go around with shotguns with the one purpose of kill- inyr geese and such like game. Those who are able, and wish the finest field for their work, zo to the Platte bottoms, where the sport is goad. Itis said that somhe portious of the river are perfectly black with ducks, geese, and bran As the weather grows warmer the hunting will beceme better, and the slaughter of the feathery tribe will be Immense. At present this line of sport is as good as one could wish, and the sporting fraternity are feeling in the best of Spirits. ———— OUT OF DANGER. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. MuavArKEE, Wis., April 16.—The dispatch sent on the 12th inst, giving an account of the death of James S. Potter from the effects of a bite of a rabid dog proves to have been premature. 1is injuries were very serious, and it was expected he would die. It is gratitying to report that Mr. Potter is now out of danger. e is one of the priucipal men in Waupaca County. STEAMSHIP NEWS, » New York, April 16.—Arrived, the State da, from Glasgow, and the Erin and n Liverpool. from New Yorl New Yonrk, April 16.—Arrived, the Mosel, from Bremen, Loxvoy, April 16.—Arrived, the Utopia and the City of London, from New York. —_—— * LUNACY- CASE, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, AMILWAUKEE, Wis,, April 16.—Proceed- ings have been instituted in Waukesha Coun- ty against George 1I. Darbner, whko will be arraigned in a few days on a charge ot lunacy. Darbner is having a hard time of it this winter. A few weeks azo his diaphragm was peppered with buckshot while skulking about the premises of Iliram Showerman., —————— A MISSING MAN, Spectal Dlspatels to Tl Chicago Tridune, Forr Wavse, Ind, April 16—James Boyer, owner of an extensive saw-mill in the south part of ‘this county, has been missing since April 7. Ile wasin town that day, and started home with a considerable amount of munefi' ltm his person. Although thorough search has been instituted, no trace could be found. — ATHLETIC, The spring exhibition of the Athenzum Gymnasium, 50 Dearborn street, will occur next Wednesday evening at the hall, Their program will consist of sparring, walking, running, leaping, Indian club swinging, a “brother’” act, horjzontal and parallel bar exereises. Fast time is expected from the participants in walking, also in the running race. ‘The sparring and gymnastic perform- ances will be up to their usual excellence. The entcrlg\mment\fill he under the man- agement of Prof Duplessis, ——— MOTHS will destroy the best of furs, and ladies who wish to preserve their furs from all danger of damageby mothe or dampness should send to Messrs. A, Bishop & Cu., 164 State street, corner Monroe, who willeall for the furs and insure them through the season at a nominal cost. 3 e —— A WIDOW'S SUIT. CrxerNyatr, 0., April 16.—At Goodland, Ind., Mrs. Ensworth,a widow, sued Blake Wilson, a wealthy citizen, for seduction, and gets $3,000 damages, . PERPETUAL PENSIONS. Some _ Perennial (Leeches upon _the Treasury. of Great Britain. . Bradlaugh’s Motion for an Inquiry into This Form of Deadhead- ism, National Support of the Posterity of “the Merry Monarch’s” Bas- tards. Men May COome and Men May Go, but These Pensions Go On Foraver. Spectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Loxpoy, Eng., April 1.—After Easter an opportunity will be afforded Mr. Bradlaugh of again bringing on his motion for an in- quiry into perpetual pensions. Upto datea thousand petitions from all parts of the Kingdom, bearing over 250,000 signatures, have been laid before the llouse in favor of it. These petitions represent that some of the perpetual pensions are not only uncon- nected with any service to the State, but were originally granted to individuals whose conduct was the reverse of meritorious; and they conclude by asking the House, in effect, tostop the payment of all such pensions. Mr. Bradlaugh will probably get the inquiry e asks for, but I think no considerable body of legislators in the House will incline to grant the concluding prayer of the petitions, because some pensions have changed hands repeatedly, and are now claimed by persons who have bought them for caslh, and at the enhanced rate of investments guaranteed by the State, An inquiry might have good re- sults, however; for, although peunsions are no longer bestowed in perpetuity, an obvious way to get rid of those that remain is by re~ demption; and this, on -terms favorable to the State, o Parliamentary inquiry would be likely to promote. There are facts in connection with this class of pensions that are apt to SHOCK THE TAXPAYING PUBLIC. It has been said, for example, that if the principal moneys paid for pensions and com- pensations to the Dukes of Richmond and Grafton had been invested at compound in- terest they would now amount to asum far exceeding the whole of the British nationa debt. It appears, also, that the heirs of the Duke of Marlborough have received the sum of £680,000 in the course of 170 years; while in a period scarcely greater the lielrs of a forgotten Dutchman, the Duke of Schom- berg, who was shot at the battle of the DBoyne by his own troops, have drawn out of the public treasury nearly £750,000.. On the whole, the oldest and biggest of these pen- sions are imposts as mean and rapacious as were ever fastened on posterity in a free State. The *“‘Dead Hand”—as dramatic writers choose to symbolize the Will whe the Past has imposed on the Present—pres: heavily on John Bull in some places; and, if John bears it patiently, itis because it is—a dead hand. But for the “dead head” at- tached to it, the Dead Hand mizht be more easily borne. In England to this day the lat- ter is, by such feudal manipulations as primogeniture and entail, a more prolific pro- ducer of the former than it appears to be at the first view; because, wherever you create: privileges, you arg MAKING PEOVISION FOR DEADHEADS. But, of all the varieties of deadhead for which the Dead Iand is responsible, the kind that vegetates on perpetual pension hasleast to say for itself. Of course these pensions are not all indefensible in the same degree. One star differeth from another in glory, and Admiral Nelson from a Royal bastard; but the chiefly deplorable thinz is, that Nelsons are rare in the milky-way of pensioners. Xe- roes did not furnish the common run of our national deadheads, and few perpetual pen- sions can boast so honorable an origin as public service. Generally it wassome Prince who wished to reward a favorii,—of course with other people’s money; or else a King who took upon himself the aggrandizement of a “natural” son. leaving his subjects to provide for the more *‘artilicial” conse- quences of wedlock. So a new tax was in- vented, or one more sinecure created, for the occasion; and, if the tax hadafterwards tobe repealed or the sinecure abolished, the fa- vored person was compensated under letters patent by a perpetual aunuity chiarged on the Consoliduted Fund. In this way Charles I1., always * mighty d to these his bastard children,” as Pepys assures us and all the world knows, granted to his * natural ” son, Alenry Fitzroy, first Duke of Grafton, tne right of “PRISAGE AND BUTLERAGE throughout Englind,—prisage being a right the King exercised in th '3 of * taking n use, and at his own valuation, as much of all merchandise belongiog to mer- chant-strangers, out of every ship importing the same, as he had occasion for ¥ while ** butlerage ” was prisage on wines. This right of taking what one wants at one’s own Pprice must have been of cousiderable value to the Duke of Grafton, and of correspond- ing damage “to merchant-strangers; for the Duke only surrendered it in 1506, in ex- cnange for a perpetual -aunuity of £6,370, charged on the Consolidated Fund, the prin- cipal of which has since been expended in the purchase ot Ducal demesnes, exception of a tritling £30,500, one of the innumerable little make up the vast ocean of th Most of the perpetual pe still exist- Ing date from Charles 1L, William I[L, or George HL A number of Dukes head the List, three of whom are pensionersrof Charles 1I.. and belong to a ¢ not, itis true, pe- culiar to that n , but with whieh he is forever identiii ‘The Dukes in question are Richmond, Grafton, and St. Albans, de- seendants. from three *‘natural” sons of Charles, by different mothers. THE DUKE OF RICIMOND ° is descended from Charles Lenn the Frenchwoman, Louise I de Quer-~ ouaille, one ot the less obtrusive figures in that seraglio. "The King guve his son Tor income & duty of one shilling per chialdron on coals out of the 'Tyne for home consump- hich duty had originally been the free gift of the people of Neweastle to Queen ZElizabeth, but which by this transfer was made 2 permanent burden on the nation, This duty on Newcastle coals was _brought back from the Duke of Richmond by the Lreasury in 1799 in exchange for a perpetual annuity of £19,000, which, being transferred to the Consolidated Fund, - w afterwards invested in Jand_in five diiferent counties ot England and Scotland, extend- ing to nearly 0,000 acres in all. Yet, no louger ugo than 1837, five daughters of the then Dukce had to be placed on the pension- list for £200 a year each, on the ground that no provision had been made for them by their futher, the possessor of this great and rich territory. acquired in the way I have related. Facts like these need little com- went; they have but to be known. THE DUKE OF GRAFTON is the descendent.of Henry Fitzroy, another illesitimate son of Charles 1L, by Barbara Villiers, whom we read about under ull sorts of titles,—Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland, and so on. 'This woman was the W ril, son. of Messalina of that reign, and bore more children than Charles, who really seems to have had a share of the better paterual feel- ngs, would own himself to be the father of. He did, however, own to three others,—a daughter and two sons, the Iatter of whom were made Dukes like their brother Gralton, but did not survive like him to found a liné of pensioners on the public purse. For Gratton ures were found, and he wus n tary Ranger of Whittlebury Torest,” ‘““Controller ot the Seals in the Courts of Queen’s Bench and_ Common Pleas,” * Reniembrancer of the First-Fruits and Tenths,”” and so on,—to all which high and arduous offices valuable rights. fees, and alaries were attached, action ot the first be hias received land in Whittlebury valued " at over £30,000; in consideration of the second, he draws an annuity of £34 and the third was sold into other hands nea Iy a hundred years ago.. Four other pen- sions granted by Charles 11, were redecmed by the ‘Treasury in 1856 by payine down to the Duke of Gratton asum of £i%4,600in bard H cash, and in t;ha following year. the Dak, “ received a further sum of '£91,000 in 2 tation of a pension originally gmfi?g{‘,”“‘ Barbara Villiers, his maternal ancestor, The Tight of “prisage and butlerage” alreag, referred te, is now . represented by gy acres in four counties; so that, althoush Duke of Grafton seems to have drwy altg. gether as mitch out of the Public Treasy, as the Duke of Richinond, he cannot copy, pare with that nebleman as a territorfalist, AS FOI TUE DUKE OF ST. ALDAYs, by the side of the preceding exampleg he not conspicuous a3 o pensioner. Heig g scended from Charles Beauclerk, a Naltra) son of Charles 11 by poor Nell Givyn, who, according to her own account, was “brgq, ht up in a brothel to fill strong water 1o the gentlemen.” The fi Duke was createq * Grand Faleoner of England,” and—g the Peerage Guide goes on 1o_state with najyy matter-of-factness—" Captain of a bang o Gentlemen-Pensioners ®: and, in Virtye o these swelling diznities, the Duke of gp Albans receives, in addition to other endog. wents, ann amounting to £2,100, But, as poor Nelly was a very obscure individug} compared With such court-personages Mile. de Querouniile and the bold sarb; so the name of St. Albans is far outshope, a least on the pensiou-list, by those of Rlch- mo\ud ak':m (;'Jmfron,( ol Another class of perpetual pensions braces such as have been conferred (urgd?: tinguished services to the State; and 1o thiy category belong the pensions_paid to Dubie of Mi\:lb%roll,':h, Ji.nn:l Nelson, Lord lodney, and other. naval and wilitary nmndei; and their heirs. Bl ety TUE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF MARLEORoUGH are said, on the authority of Lord Dart. mouth, to have drawn duritig Queen Annes reign, salaries_ amounting together £90,000 a year. Besides these imie) m'y{ ments, the manor of Woodstock was iven to the Duke and his heirs forever, and heim llouse built for them at a cost of 250,000 sterling. ‘The service which Mag). borough rendered has no doubt been well paid for twice and three times over, and it s not pleasant to know that his hetrs re dray. ing a pension of £4,000, and n e to g0 on len- drawing it as long as the Driti holds together. ~ Wellinaton, with f,'.fi'c’f greater services, received no sueh reward as this. ‘The pension of the fron Duke, and af} annulties granted since, have either been limited to_ the life of the first holder, or tg the lives of one or two immediate deseend- apts. It is mpossible to avoid the eon- clusion that a wiser and_more honest system was begun at a date which corresponds with the extension of the suffrage, and with the admission of the mass of the taxpayen to a share “in the direct control of the Government. The Duke of Mad borough is represented in the Housp of Commons by his son. Lord Randolph Churchill, husband of the daughter of Leon- ard Jeroute, of New York, and who has been. deseribed as_**a mustache, with a small, young, dandified man attached to it.” r, Bradlaugh seems to ratfle Lord Rundolph consilerably; but I doubt whether even a ventilation of the subjectof pensions will dis- perse the atmosphere of insolence and eon- ceit in which the smart and punpered mem- | ber for “Woodcock” lives and movesand hag his being. 1 ‘Tne heirs of the naval heroes, NELSON AND IODNEY, draw pensions of £5,000 and £2,000. respect- ively. “I'rafalzar House and estate, valued at £00,000, were given to Nelson. £0,000 was voted to his two sisters, and his pension fell to his brother, a clergyman. A great prop- erty has thus cowe into the hands of people who have rendered no service to the coun- try, and who do nothing to Dbe that the present Lord Lod: be able to support I pension accompanied i cumstanees should the mer poverty with the heredi Peerage be considered as a justification of the granting of @ pension ”: and that is the declaration of a Commons Committee repon in 1835, = But thereis one curious pension on thelist, which is perhays as little to be justitiela anyof these standinz imposts on the country; and that 1s a pension granted by an actol George [IL to THE HEIRS OF WILLIAM PENY, and now paid to his descendant, Col. William deration of his (Penn’s) ces. and of the losses which ned in_consequence of the * Considering that Peun's meritorious services are generally held to have been even muniticently requited whila e lived, and tha: compensation for the i mily sustained during tha War of Independence, they actually received from the State of Pennsylvania the sum of £130,000, the annuity of X460 now paid to Col. Stuart seeins needlesly generous. So far as Iam at the moment aware, the line of claimants IAS NEVER DIED OUT in the case of any perpetual pension. *Earl of Bath” and uke of Schomberz” are titles longago extinet, but the pensions of the Earl and the Duke ?'v on forever,—being paid to several old Iadies, retired officers, into whose hands they seem to ed_by purchase. The longevity of annuitants is proverbial, and there are serv- ants of George IIL and Queen Caroline set alive and druwing pensions; a few pounds are still paid to sufferers by the rebetlion in Ireland in_ 17987: and till last year ths daughter of the Attorney-General of Flonda was in receipt of a pension, as_compensation for her father’s loss of oflice when that coi- ony was ceded to Spein, nearly a century agzo. It would appear that tie mere con- e combination of ry rank of the sciousness of getting something for nothing hasall the efiect of an elixir vitwe, and adds uncommonly to the fecundity as well as tke vitality of the lucky subject of it. Ilenca perpetual pensions never become exiinet, except by redeption in hard cash ont of tha Public Treasury. RaspoLrin ——— NASHVILLE EXPOSITION. NAsHVILLE, Tenn., April 16.—A commit- tee of leading citizens, composed of Demo- crats and Republicans, appointed by the Nuashville Exposition managers, will leave here to morrow nizht to confer personnll{ with President Garfield and Gen. Hancocl for the purpose of urging upon them theit attendance upon the ovening of the Expost tion. Among those uppointad are Gov Hawkins and ex-Gov. Porter. preadder-dais Sl PANTHER KILLED NEAR MEMPHIS. Mexeuts, Tenn., April 16.—A full-grovn panther was shotat daylight this morniag by a negro man threz miles north of this clty, over in the Arkansas canebrake. The negro was out hunting wild turkeys, when he discovered the panther, which was pre- pared to attack him, but he shot the beast be fore it conld spriug at him. e L INVESTIGATING POSTAL MATTERS.. Memess, Tenn., April 16.~R. C. Jackson, B. K. Sharrets, IL C. Gibson, the Commission appointed by Postmaster-General James 10 investigate the river maif services centering in this city, also the workings of the Men- phis Post-Ollice, have arrived. They begit the investigation Monday. —————— RELIEF_FOR DAKOTA SUFFERERS. OxraHA, Neb, April 16.—An enthusiastic meeting for the relief of the Dakota suffer ezs by tlood was held in this city this EV'C;; gz, spot, and much Clothing to the value of SSW hus b by the ladies of Trinity Church. ——— STOPPED THE SHOW. OxATA, Neb., April 16.—A blonde variely show, iraveling under the name of * Sulli- vaws Hibernian ~Blondes,” was stopped showing to-night and the manager locked up, on the score of not having taken out @ license. THE SUNDAY SHOWS, Civersyant, O., April 16.—Mayor. Meand has issued a proclamation calung the atien tion of the policeto the recent act of the Legis- - lature closing shows of all kinds onSundas, and orderimg them to see that it is strictly enforced. —— A Freach Court Szene. A curlous but by no means unprecedented £cene took place In ‘a French court-room 3 {e days ago, when # tender-hearted jury brougd! in 1 verdict of acqultinl in the cusé of & nOWH* ous fofanticide. The Judize vaid to the prisonet = You may go—you can bezin over nipuin #tones . with hapumty,” whereon the forewnan made 3 iotiute protest in the nume of the whole Jurf nst the Court’s rema he local pupers - that the scene crented nsution aud we ply aifected, but it is not stat whether ite sympathies were with the Judge OF Jurs. Judging trom the scundalous frequends with which Frenen juries find verdicts o “ Guilty with extenugtng circumstauces, e in‘aum Bay that thuy must have been with 9. udge. 1y audience wus dee Prof. Ecnst Rudoiph, Ktogal Musical Acsdeuth Berlin, calls the Hallet, Davia & Co. the G0 really perfect instruwent. = T T e R R IR T . j :3: i | mwm——.-ammwmnuwmmmmmwmmmmmwm