Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1882, Page 1

o ) | f /‘, W BLanbee I Ji J 77 \.'1/(“ 3 OMaAaHA Darly Brek’ AL TWELFTH YEAR. A GAPITAL LETTER. Details of the Dense Calm Per- vading the Atmosphere of Lincoln. Candidates for Legislative Offi« ces Scoring for ‘he Race. The Immacalate David Denies the Receipt of That $5,000. The Politieal Headlights of the U, P. Nosing Around for Provender. AMulard and Manderson Protest Against Any OCowin to Sena- torial Paddock. Special Correzpondence of the Bea, Lincory, Nx», December 28 -- That sort of a oalm which always pre- ocedes a storm is with ua here in the capital city. Christmas is over, and the boys are sober once more, and it being too early to atart on a New Yeat's apree, tho town is unusually quiet, Now and then a straggling representative or senator drops in at the Arlington or Commercial just to take a look at the battle ground and become eonversant with halls and thelr dark corners where the batton-holing i to be done, but as yet not a single member has come to stay, and, in all probability, a large number of them will atay at home and eat their Now Year's turkey one aay earlier than common, and be at the capital on Monday ready to go to work in ear- nest. There appears to bebat littlo cxolte ment over the speakership, and only four candilates have as yet appeared on the surface, namely, C. O. Whedon, of Lancaater; C. C. Chapin, of Frank- lin; Geo. M. Humphrey, of Pawnee, and W H. Sessiorz, better known as the Tall Water Eim, of Salt Creek. If no other candidate comes to the front it would look as though Mr. Chapin would havo a walk away; two of the above candidates coming from Lincas- ter, as a matter of course, it leaves them both out of the question, and as Mr. Humphrey is from the home of Davld Batler it is but natural to think that David will doall he can to beat him fearing that Humphrey's election would injure the ex-governor's chanoes in the senatorial race. Speaking ot Gov. Butler reminds me that David had himselt iuter. sewed the other day. for the sole pur- pose of placing himself squarely on record in the matter of calling Rose- wator a liar, Batler declares that he Hias borrowed no mouney of Joe Mil- lard or the Omaha National, but will he stand up aud say that he did not go to Omaha, and there arrange with Joe Millard for an advance of $5,000 to the Pawnee City bank, which does business through the Omaha National, and operates in conjunction there- with, the said money to be paid over to the said David Batler. Of course he did not get any money of Millard, not any. He got all his taoney nearer homo. Tho fact of the case is he did got £5,000 of Joe Millard, but in ordor to cover up all possible traces, he had it sent through the Pawnes City bank, It is tweedle dee and tweedle dum. Now you see it, and now you don't. That kind of a de- nial will not do; and calling Rose- water a liar, while it may pleasn the railroad crowd, will not alter the fact, There is no law prohibiting Millard or any ono else from sending U. P, strikers all over the state lovking up votes, and Frank Walters is at liberty to go kinto Saunders and sleep with one of the members from that ¢ounty and furnish him with a passfor himso!f and als) one for his soa all the way from Idasha or Montana if he thinks the investment a good one. An examination of the record after the voto has been taken opon the sena- torial question will decide whether this kind of an investmont has been a paying one, It is reported that the samo Waltera did not meet with quite as good success when he undertook to capturs tho vote of Mr. Sadilek of Salive county; that gentleman prompt- ly gave him to understand that if he was looking for suckers he would haye to go farther west, Another Frank, whose surname is Hanlon, is also making himself very numerous telling the membera exactly how to vote on the senatorial ques- tion, and also puttiag them In shape to stand up and fight anti-monopoly resolutions, Loklug at the senatorial problem from a Lincoln standpciat, it would seem as though the two M.’s of Omaha (Manderson aud Millard) had joined hands, Millard to make the first dash, and in the event the showlng was good, he would be permitted to make two or three or more dashes, butin the case of a fallore the other M., Manderson by nams, is to loom up as the brown horse In the race, aud Is to wear an anti-moropoly blanket be- tween tho heats, But I have digressed. When I started out I only thought to mention some items from the oapltal, but I find myself wandering all over the state, The Lincoln Journal has a hard row to hoe; it has been selected as the pa- per to convince the people that the railroads are assessed too high, and as the common rules of arithmetic will not work a result satisfactory to them snd thoir masters, they are going it on their own hook, and they imagine that they haye the woeld by the tail, No- body blames the editor, he 1s working for his fee, and no one will say that he 18 not doing s good job. The lawyer entitled to credit, and that is the exaot oase with The Journal editor. The editor aforesaid also feela that somothing must be done for no one olse takes the railroad side, and it is very necossary to have a slir some where in order to kick up dust enough to kide the printing steal and foreatall an invesligation th liable to be agltated during the session. The fight for olerk of the house seems to have narrowed down between L D. Evans, of The Sutton Regiater, and “‘Gad” Slaughter, he that did more to defeat the republican ticket than any other man in Nobraska at the Iate election. At present writing Mr. Evana is a long distance in the lead, and as he is one of the most com- otent men in the atate, there can be ittle doubt of ucoass, Workmen are at work in both wings of the capitol preparing for the bodies that are to assemble there on the 2d of next month. New body Drussels carpets are being pat down )« .both halls and everything will be ' | readi- ness by the last of this wack The old flfl{l that have been in u - in the old halls will be used until an appro- propriation is made with whic\ to get new ones. It has been the custom for members to select their seats, sometimes wooks before the meeting of tha legislature, but up to this dats no seats have been selected, )robably owing to the fact that none «f them have been in position. Some tlme iast fall & man by the name of Armstrong came to t'is city and wrote a l:tt:r from here which was published in an eastern paper, and afterwards copied into The Lin- coin Journal, in that letter Senator Van Wyck was abused In good shape, and as a matter of course the editor of The Journal took him up a8 a man after his own heart. For the past month The Journal has been puffing Armatrong as a lecturer, and nearly every issue during that time has con- tained sickish notices of him and his audiences of five thousand people at different places, and telling everybody what they would miss if they failed to hear him, Last night he delivered his firat lecture, and this morning The Journal said it was a ‘‘small but an ” appreoiative audience,” and every one knows what that means. Senator Deck, of Saunders county, the only greenbacker in the next legislature, is in town. He saya that he is a republican, but not a railroad republican, and expects to work with the anti-monopoly wing of the repub- lican party. g THE RAILROAD POOLS. Meeting of the Mauagers in Chicago. Special Dispatch to Tun Bnn. CH1cAGO, December 28.—The gen- eral managers of the railways running to the southwest met to-day. The THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Bimunds’ Political Asseisment Bill Pughed Through the fenate. No Hope for Legislation on the Question of Unearned Land Grants. The Admission of Dakota as a Btate to Be Made a Party Measure. A Strong Protest Against Banke ruptoy Laws Presented by Noew York An Interesting Gosslpy Letter, De- pleting Slae beenes and Politioal Pians, CAPITAL NOTES. Special Dispatches to Trs Bax. THR ASTORIA LAND GRANT, Wasmineron, D, 0., Dscember 28. —Representative Payson, of Illinois, proposes, when the house getsin work- ing order next week, to force matters in regard to the resolution which he expects the house judiciary committee will favorably consider at its noxt meeting, declaring the Astoria land grant forfeited. He says though the Oregon Oentral road has laid buta fow miles of its road, it still controls one million and half acres of land be- tween Portland and Asloris, Oregon. He thinks this land should bs thrown open to settlement as do many of the residents of Oregon who have fre- quently petitioned for legislation in toat direction. Payson is a member of the judiciary committee, DAKOTA AS A STATE, From a source well informed in the matter the following has been obtain- ed: The republicans in congress make no secret of their intentlon to press the admission of Dakota as a state, or rather of the southern half of the ter. ritory at this session. This master will probubly be made subject of cau- cus action at an early day, and thore is no doubt that the decision of the party will be to make the state of Dakota if it oan be accomplished. PROTESTING AGAINST BANKRUPT LAWS, A memorial protesting against the bankrupt act, signed by 1,280 firms aud individuals of New York oity, representing all the principal branches of business, was presented to the sen- ate by Mr, Lapham, of New York, matter of business to junction points in Nebraska, heretofore in seperate ools, but broken by the Milwaukee & t. Paul extension to the Missour! river, was refcrred to Marvin Hughitt, T. J. Potter and Gommissioner Midg-' ley to draft » plan, Mees:s. R. R, Cable, T, J. Potter, C. H. Chappelle, H. M. Hoxie and J. C. Gault were chosen exeoutive commit- tee of _the Bouthwestern assicia- tion. The matter of a pool on southwestern paszenger business then came up in the form of a report by the committee of the general passen- ger agents appointed for the purpose some time since, The matter went no further, however, as the Chicago & Alton road voted “no” to append a clause which stated that such pool was.desirable. The question of the maintenance of rates with penalties was referred to the passenger agents with instructions to report January 31, Extended rules governing trans- portation of bagzage were adopted. Adjourned to January 31 Teleg: h Litigation. Spoclal Dispatch to Lun Brs, New York, December 28,—In the Western Union telegraph company litization In this city to-day, upon settlement of orders which embody the results of recent hearings in the suits of Hatch & Williams againat the company, the application of Hatch & Williams for injunction against fur- ther transfer of any of the company’s shares and payment of any and all dividends, was denied as to all fea- tures of their several applications, ex- copt a8 to the paymeat of the divi- dend of 14 per cent lately declared. This diviaend, the court held, could be lawfully levied upon all except $15,000,000 of stock which had been distributed to old s‘ockholders of the Western Uaion Telegraph com- pany. Upon the company’s represen- tation that by ifaumerable transfers and retransfers, this $15,000,000 of stock had become largely indistin- guishable from the balance, the court ordered that upon the filing of a bond equsl in amount to 13 per cent upen this §15,000,000, conditioned that if the court of appeals should finally hold that the $15,000,000 of stock was itself illegal or void, the treasury of the company should be made whole, the company upon filing the bond should be at liberty te pay the dividend upon this $15,000,000 with the rest. A Drumm: Dander. Spocial Dispatch to Tus Bax. Cnicaco, Dacember 28, —At a meet- ing of the Nortwestern Traveling Men's association it was decided to withdraw from the national as- sociation, on the ground of no benefit received. The following officers were chusen: President, H. W, K, Catter; vice presidents, E L. Smith, Jlli E. 0. Levell, Wisconsin; C, 8. Dar- ant, Wisconsio; L. W, Gordon, Iowa, T, A, Dean, Indiana, and W. O, C. bot, Minnesota; secretary and tre: urer, D, C, Chase, Louisyille Tax Thieves, Speclal Dispatch to Tus Bax, Lovisviiie, December 28,-David Ferguson, late collector of back taxes, under indictment for malfeasance in office, confeesed to the mayor and city attorney to-dey, that he had used the funds of the city, both while tax receiver and back tax collector, He claims he divided with George Levi, late deputy assessor, but exon- who takes a bad case aud works hard, even though he loses in the fight, is erates the auditor, Phil, Hinkle, who, he says got no share of the money, | rogation to-day. The memorialists atate that the operation of the United States bankrupt laws proved an injury to the business interests of the whele coun- try. MGARRAHAN'S CLAIM, B0ommissioner MoFarland, of the goneral land office, overraled the mo- tion of McGarrahan's counsel fora stay of procsediugs in the matter of the tesue of a patent to the new Idria Mining company for the Panoche Grande ranche. A MINING CASE, Secratary Tetler has suspended all prlor ordera in the A. D. Searl placer mining claim case from Lo2adzille, Col., and directed all parties intereat- ed to attend a hearing at the distrist land oftica, The qnestion at issue is whether the land 1s more valuable for placer mining than for other purposes. It is partly occupied at the present time by the depot in Leadville of the Donver & Rio Grande Rallroad com- pany. SEEDS BY MAIL, Postmaster General Howe to-day addressed a communication to Senator Allison, chairman of the senate ap- propriation committee, calling his at. tentlon to the fact thatgrowers of seeds and bulbs in states along the Canada border forward their goods to Canada, and have them sent through the mails to persons in the United Statee, thus obtaining the benefits of cheaper Cana- dian postage rates on such matters, The postmaster general, after re- forring to the fact that the United States charges twice as much per ounce for carrying producers’ sseds as it does for circulars which ad- vertise the mseeds, concludes his lstter by asking ‘‘whether we cannot offord to transport for 8 cents per pound, seeds which the farmer buys as well as to transport eeads for nothing which the government buys, end if we cannot afford to carry seeds for 1 cent for 2 ounces pmd into our treasury as well as to carry them for the same price paid into the Canadian treasury. Ho also calls ettention to the need of .some effzctive leglelation to preveut the sending of explosive and dangerous matter that will injure the convents of the mail pounches or employes, . The Hewatian Treaty. Bpectal,Dispatoh o Tus Bus, WasaisaroN, Dacomber 28,--It is reported to-night that on the return of the house foreign affairs committee next week, they will find awasiting them an exscutive communication ad- vieing agaiust the abrogation of the Hawallan reclprocity treaty, on which subject the committes solicited the views from the state and treasury de- partments ten days or longer ago. he ground on which the ab- was urged was that under the treaty a California importer and refiner by controlling the Hawaiisa trade had been apt to monopolize the sugar interests in the west, and that the treaty there operated discrim- inatively, Agents of this refiner, commissioner of the Hawaiian govern. ment and the minister had been ac- tively st work in opposition to the wovement, A ramor threatening the Foglish naval station st Hawsii n the event of the abrogstien is redited to one of these sources, and the state department took fright heveat, This came alsg to the eare if eastern refiners, who aot enly sent to the committee representing he trade of New York, Philadelphia wd Boston, but qubsequently appre hending that the state department would advise sgainst the abrogation isstruocted their agent here to nsk the | department to, without a roply to the foreign affairs eommittee until cer: tain arguments for the abrogation in form, facts and stati , might be submitted, The department agreed | to the dilay, but either the promised data have not been tortheoming or they have not been sirong enough to stem the diplomatio tide At any rate {t is now said that the honse com- mitteo will be advised that publio in- terests would aoffer by the proposed abrogation. The Dand Latters Sale. Spocial Dispatch to Tk Brs, Wasnivaron, December 28 —, The proceeda of the recent sale of articles acoumaulated in the dead lotter office amount to §4 407, which sum has been deposited in the troasury to the oredit nF the postoffice department, CONGRESSIONAL. Bpecial Dispatoh 10 T B, SENATE PRCOEYDINGS, Wasninarox, December 28 —At the close of the morning hour the scnate, on motion of Sonator Ed- munds, took up the bill reported by him from the committee on judiciary, to_prevent the offisars .and employes eolieciing from or paying to each other money for political purposes. Farther smendments wera voted down and the bill as reported by the committee passod. The bankruptoy bill was set down for consideration on the 10th of Jan- ul ary. ganltur Sherman then called up the bonded whisky bill, Senators Sewsll, however, opposed considoration of $he whisky bill be. fore the senate should take up the bill for the relief of Fitz John Por- ter, and objections to tho former bill being made the senate procoedod with the Porter bill. Senator Logan proposed its friends should speak to-day, and said he would occupy two or three houra to- morrow in oppoaition. Senator Conger protested against any arrangement for final disposal of the bill unt1l jt shall have buen ticat considered by the full senate. The conclasions of the military board, ¢ mposed of Generals Scho- field, Terry nnd (Gotty, were read. Sevator Sawell then addressed t%e senate in support of the bill, and at the conclusion of his remarks the sen- ate held execntive session and ad- journed, —— ‘WASHINGTON LEITER. Spocial Oorrespondence of Tum Bsn, CRLEBRATING CHRISTMAS. WasniNaroN, December 25,—This haa boen the most beautiful Obristmas day seen in Washington for many years, 1t has soarcely been cool enough even for light overcoats, and there haa been an unusual amount of pleasure driving Churches and thea- ters have'been crowded and the prom. enadss densely thronged, The civy, however, is dull. Poople have scat- tered to New York, Baltimore and other places to spend the holidays. Senators, congressmen and clerks have stolen away also, some to their homes ard some for a little rout in the metropolis, BUTLER AND HOAR. Friday night's eptsode in the sen- ate betwesn the dignified oocupants of the chamber was a fitting close to the week of csut aud bombsst, Butler and Hoar bandying words in the sen- ate was an unusual spectacle. Butler is vsaally calm, courteous and chiv- alric. He looka and is a perfect gon- tloman. Ho gots indignant now and then, but anger is foreign to his na- ture, The euncounter between the men is much discussed here, Hoar displayed a courage which no one sus- pected that he possessed., Hoar 13 naturally eour at the stomach, and he 18 » great fault-finder, He in also said to be a good deal of a humbug and wind bag, REVISION OF THE TARIFF, It is understood that some members of the finance committee of the sen- ate are tulking of holding aconference with the ways and means committee on the subjeot of the revision of the tariff,. The finsnce committeo has been at work on the commission bill for two weeke, aud has made consid- erable progress with the different achedules, It has, however, pursued a polioy dismetrically opposed to thut of the ways and means committee, The latter body, in revising the com- mission bill, has, as a raole, in- cressod the dutics on certain arti- cles thu! eeemed to mnesd addl- tions! protection, The fiuance committee has endeavored to keep as close to the commission bill as possi- ble, but whenever there has been doubt as the witdom of the commis- sion's regulations, its figures have been reduced. Iu the absence of Senator Jones, of Nevada, it has fre- quently happened that the finauce committee was evonly divided on cor- tain questions put lv & vote. A mem- ber of the committee hag said that he thinks it very doubtful whether any bill would be reported to the senate from that committee until after the ways and means committee had re- ported to the house, THE PENSION BILL, Iu response to a eenate resolution calling for information, the commis- sioner of pensions has furnished a long statement, in which he says the num- ber of pemsioners on the roll Decem- bor 1st, 1882, is estimated at 201, 66, with an annual value of §30,013,- 000, ‘The total disbursements for ar- rears from January Gth, 1879, was £97,801,606,98, BOB LINCOLN FOR PRESIDENT, Becretary Lincoln is being quietly talked of by many as the most svail- abla candidate for president, The Inst election has shown that none of the old politicians with the flavor of the machine lingering about them have any hope of success. Blaine, of sourse, has some enthusiastic support- -r8 whoanxiously want his nomiuvation, »ut he says himself that his hopes are A new man without & record nust be chosen, and he must be one OMAHA NEB FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 29 1882 without & stain of any kind on his name. The Ohlo men and other west. ern politicians are trying to work npa boom for him because he ia a son of his father, mont likely. OTHER CANDIDATES, All the talk about General Shorman a8 Blaine's and Logan's aandidate for the presidency is all ruobish, Logan gots vory hot under the coliar when it 18 _mentioned to him, He said the other day that Sherman was the only man he over knew in the army who would pull a bottle from his pocket and take a drink without passing it around. When Conkling nominates Blaine for president, then Logan may safely be called on to hurrah for old Tecumseh, and not before. Some of the shrowd men of the party think that Edmuuda will be the mav, bat he does not think the nomination can go oast of the Hudson, ‘‘Edmunda for- gots,” said a senator, ‘‘that Blaine was defeatod because he came from Ma'ne,” HARRISON'S PROSPROTS, A prominent senator here was re- cently asked what the presidential obances of General Ben Harrison were. Ho roplied: “'That man has a better asserblage of decorated, orna- mounted and embellished possibilitios for the presidential nomination than any one that has boen named. He came into public life in Washington 100 late to enter into the strifes which have created the destractive republi- oan factions, He is not disliked by tho stalwarts, nor by the half-breeds, and could be supported by both. He bas the traditions which would help to make him popular; he is the descend- ant of the regicides: one ct his ances- tors was in the first constitutional con. vention; his grandfather was presi- dent of the United S:ates; his father man of brain, of self-polse, of ability. He makes a good speech. Ho has witted. He comes from a good focal point, He is central,” s he an earnest candidate?” He is, most certatnly, That is his weakeat prtat. He is at hoart a most positive candidate, and he is very con- tid ynt that he will win, Hrery move- mont that he makes indicates his ex- traordinary confidence in his rising atar.” PEACE IN PENNSYLVANIA, Theroe seems to be peace in the Pennsylvania delegation, What in flaences brought Oameron and Mitchell together is not known. S:me say that through Caweron's diplomacy was a man of note; he {s himself a|T ruade no blunders He is keen, quiok | Sanator Piatt was induced to give up the chairmanship of the pensions com- mitee that Mitohell might have it. The chairmanship is not 80 much in itself, but it has an appendant fat olerkship which Mitchell's private secretary now fills, This fellow is one of the senator's most Intimate friends and advisera. HOAR'S ONLY HOPE, Senator Hoar's friends say that he | seriously doubts his return, and that be looks forward to impending defeat, philosophically. Ile is now, he says, a poor man, Another term would bring him on the shady ride of 60, and with little hope of selzing a practics that would coms to him. ~ He hopes, in any event, to gst through two pet bills before his reviremnent. They are the Lowell bankrupt eot and the bill for tho prcsidential succassion. He has boen promised the support of a number of prominent senators in these two measures, and thinks that they will alide through, AENATORIAL WEALTH, It does not oczur to everybody that the senate of the United States is a very rich body of men taking as a whole, Tt is estimated chat the seven- ty-six senators represent an aggregate of £600,000,000 Thoue reputed very rich are, Fair, of Nevada, Jones, his colleague, Mahone, who owns Virgin- 1s and some of the railroads after they. wot out of the state, David Davis, Warner Miller, of New York, John Sherman, Hill, of Colorado, Sawyer, Windomw, Saulsbury, and Pendleton, and practically the majority of them, ITHE SLUGGER'S SAY the Prospecuve Fight ‘With Mace. Spoctal Dispatch to Tus B, New York, December 28, -~ Richard K. Fox said to-day in rogard to thu proposed fight between Mace and Sullivan: *‘1 have sent word for Mace snd his party to give en exhi- bition in San Francisco and come on to New York at the expiration of two weoks, I have received offers from two railway lines to bring the party on, and T have taken the best offar, and sent on four tickets, and when they arrive we will make a match, if possible, to fight Sullivan for any amount,” Sullivan said, *“I will fight Mace if 1 have to, but would rather fight the younger man, Slade, as there would be more credit in it. Mnce, aoccord- ing to his own say, is 62 years of age. T will box Mace and agree to stop him in four rounds easily, If Fox, after looking around for two years, thinks he has found the man to whip me, I will fight him for $5,000 a side to accomm )date him, but would rather have it for §10 000 a side. I care nothing for the title of champion of the world, which Mace claims, but am satlsfied with that of champion of America,” Concerning A Dreadful Catastrophe. Speclal Dispatoh to Tus Bex, Bravrorn, Eag,, December 28— This morning a tall chimuey fell upon # building full of operatives, many of whom are believed to be killed, Sev- enty two have been removed, twe be- ing dead, A LATER DISPATCH, Twenty-four operators were killed and forty eeriously injured, Thirty slx persons are uow known to be killed, and fifsy others wounded, mostly women and children, Owing to the amount of debris the exact nomber of killed cannot be learned for two or three days. Total damage is estimated at over £60,000, About 3,000 persons are thrown out of em- ployment, elght mills having flus con- nections with the fallen chimuey are brought to & standstill, THE OLD WORLD. The Rhine River and Tributaries Swollen to Disastrous Pro- portions, Vast Properties Dastroyed, Trafis Stopped and Lives Loat. Gambetta's Oondition Exoltes the Alarm of the Physiolanw GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Special Dispatoh to Tun Bun. THE RISING RHINE, BrruN, Dacember 28, —The Rhine and ita tributaries, from the Lake of COonstanca to Oologne, continue to rise rapidly. Many bridges and ‘dams have been destroyed. The bridge near Lorrach, Baden, gave way, and twenty persons were drowned. The river Inn has overflowed its banks at Passau. The Danube has also over- flowed. A panlo prevails at Neuweid. A train attempted to pass over the line from Oppenweiser and one person was killod and several others injured. The government of Baden announce tho floods higher than in November. The river Neckar is now at the high- est known this century. The Rhine dam is expected to be swept away. The Moselle river ateamors st Treves have closed running, The bridge boata of Ooblintz were romoved to Carlshrue Travel on the railway between Kehl and Kark is stopped, the track being submerged for a distance of two miles. rains from Mannheim to Neckar have stopped. The Salzkammergut istriot in Austria is threatened with ion, The Danube River Steam Navigation company aotifiad the own- ers of the merchandise on the Prater quay to remove their goods. The Livz quay is under wa'er. GAMBETTA WORSE, Paris, Decomber 28.—Gambotta's condition exoltes alarm among the physiclans, Four physicians are in consultation about lanolng the abroess in the stomach and secure external diecharge. The atlment Is inflimma. tion of the cellular tissue, enclosing oaecuri of the intestines, Such inflam- mations resuit in phlegmon, whick, unless it disolves naturally will maks necessary piercing of the abscess, OFF ¥OR TONQUIN, Lonpon, Dacember 28, —Seven hun- dred and fitty soldiers and clvilians sailed from liuuillu- for Tonquin to- day. PARLIAMENT is summoned to meet February 15th, STOINNG AN AMBABSADOR. Rome, December 28,—A man threw a stone at the Austrian ambassador to the Vatican to-day. The man claim- od he was starving ani was unaware of the ambassador's identity, TROUBLES OF RUSSYAN PAPERS, 81, Prrerssura, December 28,— The Geolos newspaper his recelved = second warning. The Moseow Osurci has been suspended three months and the sale of ringle numbers of the Moecow Talegraph prohibited, owing to the publication of forbidden matter, FIENDISH TREATMENT, St. Perersnure, December 28,— The complaints with regard to the treatment of the Jows are again ap- pearing in the newspapers. It is stated that the railroad companies have ordered the discharge of all their Jowish employes, The perfect of St, Peotorsburg has ordered that no in- dulgency be shown to the Jows resid- ing in the capital without official leave, The senate has dectded that no court can authorize the transfer of land to Jews, IRISH AFFAIRS, DuniiN, Docember 28.—O0'Beyer, the editor of United Ireland, will con- test the seat for Mallow, with the new attorney general, United Ireland reappesred to-day with a cartoon repressnting the lord- lieutenant and crown officers drinking long life to the inquisition. The government has taken pre- cauttons to secure the safoty of the foreman of the jury which convicted Poff and Barrett of murder. CHOLELA EPIDEMIC, Panama, December 28.—Salina Cruse is almost deserted, owing to the cholera epidemic, Tehantepoc has 25 deathe daily. Railway laborers have abandoned the works. Oaxaca has stopped all communication with the infected towns. The scarcity of wa- ter and its impure «uality is supposed to be the cause. INDIANS ROUTED, BueNos Ayres, Decomber 20.—The Indians have been routed by Colonel Ortego, who took 700 prisonera, A BCULPTOR'S REWARD, LoxpoN, Dacember 28.--The great Belt libel case, which has excited much interest in artistic and literary circles, was concluded to.day, the jory awarding the platntiff Belt, the sculptor, £5,000 damages. The libel consisted iu the publication by Van- ity Fair of an artiole intimating that many of the works claimed to be the production of Belt are actually works of Verhyden, a well known artist, STEAMER WRECKED, Svoney, N. 8, W,, Decomber 24, — The stesmer New England was totally wrecked In the Clarence river on the 24'h, The passengers and crew are loat, FRENCH BUI Paris, Decomber 28.—The senate adopted the ordinary and extraordin- ary budgets and voted a grant of 20,- 000,000 francs to meet the cost of the French occupation of Tunis, HALE OF RAILIOAD BONDH, MontreaL, Decsmber 28, —The bank of Montreal disposed of 50,000, 000 land grant bonds of the Canadian Paclfic railroad. THE WILL OF 8Lt HUGH ALLAN divides tho estate equslly am ng his own femily; eight davghters rcceive $160,000 each on attaining their ma- E jority. Daring thele minority they will receiye an allowance of 81,600 per annum, Tho marrled daughters reooive interest on their portions from the present until the estato is finally wound up, which will be when the youngest son attains his majority. The two sons will be added when they attain their majority. The nssets are estimated all the way from §6,000,000 to £10,000,000 a A TRANSEER OF PRISONERS, s 8r. Ferersnune, Dacemher 28 — The czar has ordered those persons in- carcerated in the fort at Petropaula- viska to be transferred to Schlussel- burg, as the fort Is unsafe for the imprisonment of political offanders. GLADSTONR'S HEALTH. Loxnox, Dacember 28, —Gladstone has had a slight attack of lambago, owing to a chill consequent upon ex- postire in felling a tree, Tuosday. He was much improved last evening. Oardinal Newman has recovered. SUICIDER, Brruiy, Decomber 28.—Adjatant Baron Von Winterfeld, atd-de-camp of the emperor, shot himself to-day. [MURDER AND SUICIDE, LoxpoN, Dacember 28.—Dr. Ma- son, a well-known writer on political economy, shot his wife and afterwards himself, yesterday. ¢ GREAT DISTRESS, A special commissioner of the News wiren that the greatest distross exists in Donegal, Ireland, JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS, Dunuiy, Dacember 28.—Thomas Johnson, attorney general for Ireland and member of parliament for Mal- low, has acoepted the vacant judge- ship in the l‘l‘lm'l bench division of her majosty’s high court of justice in Ireland. Androw M. Porter, solicitor general, will succeed Johnson as at- torney general, and John Naish, the Iaw advisor to the crown, will become the soliotor general. Natsh will be a oandidate for a eeat 1n the house of commons, made vacant by Johnson's accoptauco of the judgeship. ARABI DEPARTS, Sure, Dacember 28 — Arabi ‘and his follow exiles embarked this afternoon for Oeylon. There was no demonstra- tion of any kind in connection with the departure. THE REBFLS SENTRNOED, Oarro, Dacember 28— Sentences varying from one year's Poflu surveil- lance to twenty years' punishment have been imposed on eighty-four po- Jitical prisoners, including Emin Bey, El Themsy and eleven others previ- ously sentenced, Twelve of the rich- est prisoners have been ordered to deposit guarantees of £5,000, and lessor amounts for the faithful observ- ance of the government orders, A REBELLIOUS SUBJECT, . RanaooN, December 28.—In con- sequence of the recent escape of the eldest son of the late king of Burmah ::;m and who is suj nluh ve gone to upper 3 & rebellion, umi: thousand Bormese troops have been dispatched to the Manipor frontier, and three thousand from the Shan States to the Tou frontier stations on the Irra ly river to carefuily guard the same. War steamers are in readiness to con- voy troops. A SWOLLEN RIVER. Coroank, Dacember 28 —At Man- heim the river Neckar has risen con- siderably, and the firemen and sol- diers are ordered to be ready to assist the population, PREPARATIONS FOR BUSINESS, S, Prrersnvro, Dacember 28— The chief of Ordnance has ordered all Krupp guns required by the artillery reserves, The German government has raised no objection to the execu- tion of the order. A RUSSIAN ARMY, ConsraNTINOPLE, December 28, — The Russian force concentrated along the Kars frontier consists of 70,000 men, with 80 guns, THE FESTIVAL FINISHED, ViNNNA, December 28,—The festi- val concluded in honor of the house of Hapsburg with a grand banquet at Hapsburg, at which the emperor en- tertained various deputations whe presented their congratulations. A DESTRUCTIVE ¥LOOD, Lowoon, December 28.—The ree cont rainfall has caused' floods in the midland counties and a great mortal- ity smong shoep in Northampton- shire, Notinghamshire and Lsicerter- shire, GERMAN RAJLROADS, Burrix, Decomber 28 —It 1s defi- nitely setiled t! the Gorman rail- ways to the Russian front er will be woon completed, THE RUMOR CONTRADICTED, LoxpoN, Dacember 28, —A dispatoh from Rome to The Times authorita- tively contradicts the statement that England will appoint a minister to the Vatican, A SLAVER CAPTURED, Loxpox, Dacember £8,—Her Ma- jesty's ship Undine has captured a light slave dhow on the ocoast of Africa, A Double Tragedy- Special Dispateh to Tun Bus. CiarraNooaa, Tenn,, Dacember 28. —Following are the particulars of the tragedy at Lebanon, Ala,, yesterday. Two brothers, Dave and Henry Bul. ‘nrd, had a gambling saloon in town, aud Thomas Jacoway, who desired to ;l.l!l:lilhlllfi‘:flol, an lub:‘ok to com- them [to close nstitul H proceedings, This led to -d:. The Bullards] sttacked Tom Jacoway. The best cltizens came to his rese and oune of the Bullards was uln and the other wounded, Last the brother of Jacoway went to house, and he, mistaking him for a friend lof the Bullards, shot him fatally, A Dark Threat. Spocial Dispatch to Tux k. Lirrie Rock, December 28.—The Geaotte's special from Hope reports considerable alarm p; g over a reported uprising of threaten to burn the town to- : The strects are patrolled by the if's posse,