Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1883, Page 1

( 1 . [3 THIRTEFR THE BATTERIES UNMASKED A Brief Armislice in the Telegraph War, Followed by Firing Along the Whole Line. The Operators '‘Respectfully Re- ferred” to Subordinates for Terms of Reinstatement. The Postal Telgraph Reorganized with Mackey at tlm Helm, “The International Cooper's U l|l(:| Re- | Tnfi Pl'flflfll’flnal Pfll‘[‘{ Kllll]W Gamu vival-The Ironworkers, New York, August 15.- Stocks were strong, and an advance took place on the | repert that the strikers had petitioned General ot for work. Round | amounts of ste advancing figu At noon t committee of six, be- | ing striking operators formerly employed by the Western Union Telegraph com- | pany, waited on General Kekert and asked for an interview, which was granted. Tt is not known what proposi- | tiov was presented, | ks are now being taken at | REFERRED TO THE SUPERIN New York, August 15, D) Eckert said_they represented the Mor; the Western Union, but that their was not to be considered as a weakening on the part of the Brotherhood. Their purpose wes to inquire on what terms men would be taken back into the se vice. Gen. Eckert said he would recom- mend that those now out should apply to their respective superintendents as to the terms for resumption of work, 'MEETING OF THE MOG The executive committee of the West- ern Union company met to-day. Among those present were Jay Gould, George Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field Harrison Durkee, and General Ecker No reference was made to the strik After the meeting um committee held an | informal confer ard to the ap- | plication of the committee of strikers to TR R 1 o Trrei S ction in referring them to their su- perintendents for information as to the terms upon which they will be taken | back. [ RENEWING THE FIGUT, Tire tive board of the Tel & ers’, Brotherhood sent a e | to Gen, B attempts to effe proved futile, we now desire to state it is the intention of the members of the Brotherhood to ignore your ultimatum and cairy on the fight with renewed vigor and determination by every legitimate means in our power.” CUT WIRES. | Horo J. August 15.— The wires | of the New J lephone company 'y were cnt last night. THE TRON WORK] . PunaveLenrs, August 15.—On isvita- tion of Senator Blair, chairman of the senate sub-committee, the amalgamated association of steel and iron workers at the session to-day, decided to send John Jarrett, William Martin and James Peuny to testify before the committee at Washington after the convention ad- journs, A resolution reported by the commit- | tee on constitution and general Pt the t that payment of strike benefits be h fter .ln.mnrinnul, was not con- curred in. The National Labor Tribu of Pittshurg, was continued as the na- tional organ of the association and the News Lotter, of Wheeling, West Va., as the ofticial organ of the second dis- | tric Committees which have under | consideration President Jarrett’s report did not s the plank advocating eration of trades, holding as we do opp: site views on protective tarifl policies of | our government, it could not redound to Th by the convention, The following i on the prosident’s views on | r Aens of taxation, and forcign producers and manufacturers should not be ex- empted therefrom, Our tariff should at all timos so adjusted as to at least tax them the same mmount paid by home producers and manufacturers for the sup- port of local, state and national govern- ment as well as the amount of differences in wages of labor and cost of manufac- turing and the ruling rate of interest in this country, so that capital and labor in- vested in respective industries of the land shall be placed upon an equal foot- s in our own home. THE COOPERS Ok Prota, August 16.—The Lm.pcm con- vention, which has been in_session here | the gast few days, adjourned to-day, hay- ing woncluded its labo It was called for the purpose of reo ng the inter national union, an assc formed in Chicago ten y dissolved after a few ition was Lield in 1875, here from all the principal citie untry an 1 Canada, this « inus are secret old association or u on was affacted, It| ed to organize | company, which will wis also it a mutual insura increase the membership to at least 10,- 000 The following ceted: President and treasurer, Thomas Henne borry, Cleveland; secrefary, John B. Lewis, Peoria; first vice president, John B. Lewis, Peoria; second vice president, E. n, Toronto, Canada; third vice president, John J. Long, Alton; fourth, James Heidman, Peoria; fifth, John Mc Grath, Cleveland. journed subject to call of the exccutive committee, The name was changed to the Coopers’ Protective Association of North America. THE POSTAL TELEGRAFH, New York, August of Mackey as director of the postal sraph was announced before 2 o'clock, he aunouncement was also made that | the capital of the Postal Telegraph com- pany had been fixed at $21,000,000, of which $19,000,000 had been 1ssued to be NTH YEAR. | cate Company | ductors, etc. |t 1 of affording an opportunity for vari [ to arrange pack loads. ' | hunte | eircumst tion of the committee was ratified | sistent! solution of the com- | ington alike equal bur- | nceruing ation which was | 4 The convention ad -I..,-. The election | account of the inability of the pri lized to old and that of this last amount u-flur.-nl for sale | placed in the hands of ( to £12,000,000 had been , rize Coe, presi | dent of the American Exchange national | capital is said to bank. The working been raised by the sale of 3,000, ’lKNl first mortgage bonds on the prese and future property of the compan |J. W. Mackey, H. L. Horton and D. Roberts. | | } ANOTHER CORPORATION, | New Yonrk, August 15, The certifi of incorporation of the H..m... nduit Construction company was filed in court to-day. The company is organ manufacture and_sell electric conduits and construct underground con Capital stock fixedat ¢ 000,000, and Il(l 000 sh WIND RIVER SPORT. and Tront in the Forks of Wind RIVBP. (orgeous Scouery En Route~=The | without Chronicles of a Day. Cayvr Bisnor, Forks of Wind Rive | Wyoming, vin Ft. Washakie, The president and party are encamyy the forks of Wind river, up same ground occupied last yoar | Sheridan, Mr. H. R. r the present camp. for the double pur us members of the party to hunt andfish. and This is our sup- | mp whence we lave to take on | packs rations and forage enough to last | |through to the park. At the present ment, whilst your correspondent s | vriting this dispateh all the members of the party have gone out either hunting or fishing. The president who is in fine health and spirits, has gone on horseback with Gen. Sheridan about three miles up | the main fork of Wind river, wrong alled Dy the people of this count Denoir e president caught some fine trout. The march of nineteen miles from Camp § r to this point led us through the beauti ¢ of the U pres Wind rviver, whe sly e d and fan- | tastically shaped mountains chich are covered with g timbered ravines. he tful, and the march 1 by everybod Three antelopes, one bear, several Ric anson grouse, and a slow rabbit weve | ght into camp last evening by the s of the party, 8o there is slopes weather was thoron ettt dian schools. The schuol building at | { for The results of to-day’s | Chilocco, Indian Territory, will be fin- | 8po » to remain over for to- |ished by October 1, and e opencd for | T et | the ption of 150 pupils on January 1. | = e 1s at Lawrence, Kansas, and at e Nebraska, will accommodate 350 s one fuz e pupils cach, and these will also be WasmiNarox, August 12 st opened in auary. When these time Lieut. Col. I 1 t | are completed the Indian schools thro martial before the recent trial for dupli-| the country will 10 cating his p: 5 75, | pupi Inspec the .u At that time he was sentenced to be dis missed from the servic members of the court which count of his splendid military record. |look to pursuits other than ch: for Although it wes Liout. Gol. Ilges'|means of subsistenco in tho future sccond offonse, the president, in | R webe his order approving the findings| o RS RS S o and _sentenco of @ the court|g S [NRIG N RILGG SGOY ot martial, said that “In view of somo palli-| 33 (onghisioner, Bungy: i the, ow of ating circumstances he had been induced, | for the seconc time, to end clemency He also remarked that ion of a pay account by an m\ul\'wl “Falschood, fraud and an | ct of dishonor, and that clemency in such cannot be expected by any officer after this warning,” Under these probably Lieut. Col. Tlges | does not expect to be leniently dealt with at this time. oL, MORROW’ ¢ There is some reason to believe, over, that he will not rest easy und lisinissal from the service if . Morrow, late of Gen, ase of C the c our henefit to have any such connection. | Sherman’s staff, shall continue to be per- igno Some of Col A by the war department, | Morrow's creditors in ) t officer. It is in of his creditors to participate in the benelits to the syndicate which took up dishonored accounts and formed a trusteeship with the consent of the war department,other creditors whose claims are equally good, some of them even stronger, have been ignored entire- Meanwhile, - Lieut. Robertson, an ambitions young officer, who loves his profession, is to be tried by court martial for a duplication of his pay accounts, which, as explained, happened in a way which reflects very little discredit upon him, in relation to th aid that while cel = i e, Terrible Murders, Lubtow, Ky., August 15, —James Nixon is working mill men near Cum- berland Falls, Tenn., making ties for the Cincinnati railroad. ' Sunday night Chas. Slagel, one of Nixon's men, who slept in ame bunk with James and John and a man named Clarbone arose after their companions were asleep, crushed their skulls with an axe, rifled their pockets of about $60 and escaped, Nixon put his whole force in pursmit and to-day “Slagel was captured near this lind that those who have purchased it place. It is thought he will be lynched. | haye no simple title, Tt is undor —— stood that Edmonston is willing to settle big Show at New Orleans, with the present occupants, and to give ) OnLeass, August 15— Mayor ;. I & goud deed on the basis of 3,000,- | | E yina letter to the hoard” of | I property involved, | TAT; nent of the world's industrial | and cottan centennial exposition, accept ing the position of director general, sug gests the organization auxillary com of mitt ach parish of Lousiana and | Warkixs, N. Y., the in every state of the Union, that there | fipst trial heat of the professional boat may complete representation of | yuce, Wallace, Ross, Plaisted, Griffin, products and manufacturers of the coun A Church Unde Boston, August 19, Essex sav ings bank for d a mort o of $70, 000 on St. Mary’s church, Lawrenc sts to raise sufficient funds to pay the interest. The property will be uu]tl at auction Sep tember 6th. This is a portion of ciety. 200,000, Geo. The cqmp was then named | | Camp Bishop, in honor of The commit- | Bishop, of New York, who wi tee of operators who called on Gen. |of the general's } > | been retained f .operators and_limemen in the employ of | remain here to-day a member and the name has We | Al , to where last evening the | alternate |y, v [ ter of cattle at the expense of the owners, but the eight |lar, tried him | recommended clemency in his case on ac- | ¢ indignant _at the position of | on the | property owned by the Augustinean so- The structure originally cost over ()\IA" \ \l B. THU R\l) \Y \l()R\l\(v, ;\l (vU\l Ih, It*h"% NO. 51. E NATlONAL CAPITAL. ‘Pflrlhcr lumrmmun _for Bondholders | ¢ Concerning Redemption aud { Interest. ‘Imparlmion of Australian Cattle 1 at San Francisco and the 1 Pueblo Grant, 1 - he 1a ation of Young Indians aressing Favorably —Accommo- dations tor Ten Thousand Youth CAPITAL NOTES, | ASHINGTON, August 15, Notice is | given that on Wednesday, August 22 and | on each Wednesday fallowit S, bonds embraced in the 121st eall, \\\H be | redecmed at the treasury department in Washington to the amount of £5,000,000 te. Tuterest of bonds pre |sented at the department on the day | named for redemption will be paid in the | order of their presentation, and if in ex | cess of §5.000,000 be presented on eithor day such excess will be first paid on the | next redemption day. Frank W. Lyon is appointed postmas ter at Toulon, His, THE PUEILO OF SAN FRANCINCO, | WasniNGron, A st 15, sent to Surveyor- uspend | the decision in | the pueblo of San Francisco until further | advised,” signed by Harrison, acting com missioner of the general land oftice. The order was made by divection of the presi | dent, and it is understood was procurc y ex-Repre | that state's who were dissa cretary’s Nuusmu A survey was about to he made accordance with that decision, hut the [ BRikriairasting it L BN ER hroALLY indicates a rehearing of the case. stion under representing its in the pucblo AUSTALIAN CATTLE | The secretary of the i treasury received letter from the collector of customs, anfrancisco, to th at the im- rtation of ¢ 18 ex | pected at that port in a few cks, and | | asking instructions in re ablish- antine for their a ion. llector was instructed to provide cilities for the care and shel- ing The ¢ INDIAN SCHOOLS. | Tnspector Haworth, who has supervisory ol of Indian 1d who recently returned from the west, | reports good pr s i the construction | and cquipment of the new industrial In- o tendance the present year has been much than any preceeding The result he attributed to the realization by the Indians of the fact that they must 1sion laws, in having taken an ex- e fee for obtaining a pension for the mu(]m of a soldier killed during the late war. The commissioner dismissed the | case on the ground there had been no vi olation of the statute as chary In his decision he draws a dictinction between Tho follow- | | lond. | before Leo would take his own cour: At one time it appeared as if Loe w. ul. \Lv( the lead, but he only held it a mo. ment. It was not long, for Ross won in 10:42 by half a length, Lee second, | Courtney third. The latter was at |least a length in the rear of | Ross, The crowd howled in disappoint | ment, as it was too evident this would |shut Courtney out of the second trial |heat, and so out of any contest with Hanlan, It would have looked like a clear put up job if Courtney had not claimed second place, on account of Lee's approximate foul, 1t is not decided yot by the referce and judges whether to al low a foul, so far as learned, but probably it will not. Interest in the i heve in that event. rattcenses HANLAN WINS Y., August 15, Hanlan professional race this afternoon, with turn, in 2009, threo ihead, Hosmer sceond, Wallace, WATKINS, won the three miles 1gths | Ross and Good third; Lee out ROCHESTER RACES Rociester, August 15, The second day of the s, )00, Tony Newell won, , Amoelia O, third, Cornelia fourth, Judgs n vis Gladi tor ruled ont; time, by 2;20, 2:10), 2 purse of ket won t herts, Phillas second; time, 2:19, 2:16, 2:17. | BASE BALL. | Duovimxer, August 15, New York | , Providence ll Ihmh.n Bostons 9, Philadelphias 4 Cleveland-—Dotroits 8, Clevelands 4, Butlalo—Buflalo 4, Chicago 3, Ft. Wayne— Ft. Wayne b, Peoria 0. Quincy—Springfields 3, Quincy 0, —m— THE UNTERRIFIED. A Rousing Meeting of Radical Irish- men in Chicago, Gannon and Bourke, Cineaco, August 15, ot Trish National organization of , but mainly tho In»hl their seventh annual. demonstration Ogden ove this afternoon, fo raise funds to earry on the agitation in Ireland Fully 10,000 paid admittance to entort grounds, Speeches were made by € man John F. Finerty, Thoma: 7 of ‘the National Ivi M. O. Gannon, . O’S. Bourke, of New of | They were all radical in tor 1 de manded the total independence ||.‘ Mr. Finnerty's assertion that *we want it distinetly understood that we of Chi infe mer Carey,” . was wildly applau plo of Tr ence of C Rome, 1d did not want, the interfor- rdinal Manning or the pope at if it tended ' keeg Ireland in lains, Mz, Brennan declared that what nd needed above all else, at this , was education and organization. Hw league should A(Illl(l\uln\" men of nd an opportunity !nulmly its histo- He termed ef hangi - tion of principles, as set forth h, the asseml declared unfalte le- giance to America, but as Ivish cans they vould mnever yield the right of land to overthrow a foreign despotism. itude was expressed to Parnell and his colleagues in the work of aiding their suffering countrymen. They concluded by endorsing the action of the Philadel- phia_convention. T exercises king extended far into the night, and eulminated with a display of pyro- technics, CROP NO' taking from the pensioner of a part of the | | monoy receivod ms potsion us soon as re | ceived, or withholding any portion of it when it has been ned by an agent, | [and the aceeptance at any subsequent | time of a sum of money from the pen- | oner. He holds in this particular case, the pension check having been cashed by | the bank, and a portion of the mmount it f dled for having been placed with the | ik on deposit, th tion passed | o under the protection which is | placed by statute over money received on | account of pensions, and the fact that the defendant in this case afterwards re ¢ a part of it on account of his ser- Vi in procuring the pension does not make him amenable for having violated the statute, JUDGE BLACK'S 1LL! N, Dr. Garnott, Judge Black’s physician, returned last night from his visit to the J..d.,.~ at York, Pa. To-day he received telegrams in quick succession, noti- l)mg him of a change in Black’s condi- tion, and requesting his immmlintu&;runr ence. He left this afternoon for York, and was due there at 8 o'clock this even- ing. A CAPITOL SUIT, Samuel B, Edmonston, of St. Louis, who claims, with others iuterested, a ¢ portion of land embraced within the limits of Washington, including S uth Washington and much of what is now the Capitol grounds, isin the city, This property was sold hy James ileaf to the government in fee, and Edmonston contends thatGreen leaf's interest was only a leasehold for 99 years, which has or is about to expire, A Put L In Lee and Courtney started at 10:40 a. m in the order named. Ross took water first and got a fine lead, Plaisted second, Lee third, Courtney fourth, Gritlin fifth, Courtney drew up to the third ve and in a fine style of sturdy stroke, was soon contesting for socond position the mile and a half »u-mg‘u heat but Lee started toward the out- side and almost across Courtney's course, o that at the half mile they had almost locked oars. Courtney had vir- tually ceased to exert himself. They rowed alongside thus for nearly a mile ) fin | by the hotel keepers for the « Special Dispatehes to The Dek, Oscrona, Neb., August 13, county has heen marvelously fortunatc | this season in mot having been in the | day absente track of any destructive storims, The small grain is all gathered and is ked o threshed, T quantity of wheat that will yiel Is to the acre, and owts that will turn from 50 to 75 hushels to the acre. Corn has all ) iest crop we have it can to get tl being s Tho yield is all that was expected vo is a large bush- nuploms of the heayv- lud, and doing all on the home-stretch. Kexesaw, Neb., August 15,—Corn is doing better now than it ever has done in this section of Nebraska, but the con- tinued rain has done considerable dam- being stacked. Flax is growing slowly. Oats aro roported as being in bad condi- tion. Wheat not so bad. Cutting not all done yot. It has cleared off again and we may look for some fine weather. | — EMPIIGE ing of the Repub- ymmittee, ™ N’ Harmonious Mel licar Niw Youk, August 1, Tho republi an state committee m members of the committeo Pior represented at sented by proxies, was not all, tember 19th nvention convention will numbe — Turns up Safe, Trov, August 15,—Thomas G. Hunt, a New York merchant who disappeared wysteriously June last, turned up in Elizabothtown, Essex county. He has not been to Eu He says he does | not know whe he has been, | —— Ohicago Building Permits, Cuteaco, August 16, —The Royal Tn- surance company, of Liverpool, took out a permit to-day to erect a nine story oftice building on Jackson street, in close imity to the new Chamber of Commerce, to cost §500,000, Other permits were m sued during the day and swell the aggre- gate to $600,000. Speeches by Finelty, Brennan, | 6 A | Had the old Tord been compelled to marry | would have been intolerable, [ 0 are mulul of the man who Killed | {he world, that he is not alon The same speaier deelared that the peo- | he ..u-uu of hell and of polished de and | age to small grain, not more than half Smyth presided. Six ballots were taken | before a decision was reached as to the | place of holding the state convention, | Richfield Springs wis chosen, and Sep- | A wigwam will be erected | | yielded! |THE VAMPInEs OF IRELAND. | ’I‘]llcd Villains whu Have Ruined their Tenants, Body and Soal, | Wielding the Power of Eviction to Rob Irish Women Their Chastity. of © Blandishments of 1 Aided by the Pangs of Hun, Sad Scenes of Poverty the Midst of Plenty. co Philadelphia Pross CANERNAKELLY, Treland July 20,1 drove through the private demesne of Lord Dunsandle to-day. This place be longs to the estate. His lordship, who is gular Correspond now quite an old man, does not find the | atmosphero herenbouts whol . He| thinks there is lead in the air, He s living down at Kingstown, near Dublin. 1t 18 a little seaside vesort, and also the departing station for boats to- Holyhead, I'heve the disreputable and immoral old lord is doingg holy penance for his sins. He did more clearivg of his lands than any man in Ireland estates. His rvents@are said to be over 8100,000 a year. Bosides the desire to put his land undor grass, ho had the see ond motive of gotting rid of many of his | tenants. 1t was to got innumerable givls | ; whom he had ruined off to Americ He [ nsed to pay the expenses of while fami | lies who emigrated to America \ HALF LORD, HALF PEANANT, lnl\, his eldest son, lives on the demesne jand acts as his natural father's agent. He has soveral sisters. They stay on the place with him, Thongh ho sprang from | the peasantry, he is so unpopular with them that his own conscience tells him te go armed and guarded. The old lord married the mother of these children |after all of them were nearly grown up, through fear of outraged public opinion | He braved that for a long time; but a very serious talk of tarving and feather- ing him, incroasing popMar indignation, and aggressive influence of the Catholic compelled the roprobate to do little he could by way of reparation on this carth. The woman is now dead. | all the mothers of his clildren, his |\h"||| He would have had to emigrate and become a saint at Utah. IN THE LANDLORD'S POWER, However bad - Dunsandle s and has been in his terrible conduct towards his peasant girl tonants, ho may eonsole him self on what is only a greater re; that on other estates’ in lre! Hords did not seruple to give ant women their alternati comely if erimo ction, which weant sin or death, d etched women who eely ablo to at first, and chastity, and v in the fray. The blandish- Is of vided by the pangs of hunger and lln- necessary degradation of starvation, were too strong. THREATS OF EVICTION, poor, W hoy were s combat, Many resisted stood ot grandly for their not a few, It was an uneq Fully one-half of these larger land- holders in Ireland worked the evils of their terrible machinations by the threat of eviction and by the reward of either a marriage portion or a o farm to a hns band on marrying. ls it any wonder that many of them go armed anc arded , while others fear to he seen at | | by pohe |allZ Before the peasant was a serf, a | slave. ow he is a freeman. He is no [Tonger afraid of the landlord, Centuries | of this slavery had gotten these benighted persons to submit to almost anything a landlord, on the same principle as that the King can do nowrong, 1t is not to follow. LIVING ON THIRTY-SIX CENTS A WHEK, At Bookeen, which is one-half mile from the entrance, by one road, to the demesne of Lord Du an old woman named Mary 1 Sho has 18 of support, and she is too old Sho s a public pauper. The outdoor relief ofticer allows her thirty- six cents a week, That is all that the humane ofticer, who is a son of Lord Dunsandle’s bailiff, allows 1 for fuel, clothes and food. When T visi IMmy ick I found her in great poverty. thrifty, and the cabin and cleanor than many en. Another old woman more others 1 have s about her age is in the cabin with her. She, too, is on outdoor relief, and has to bo grateful for the magnif thirty-six cents. “Can you live on that?” T asked her, “Well, yes sir, 1 do, and on less, for 1 only spend thirty-four cents on myself, though I often want more to eat than | have.” “What do you do with the other penny (two cents)!” “Well, you see, sir, 1 keep that, and wory Saturday | uy a little wax candle with and burn it in honor of the Dles R it, d Virg LORD DUNSANDLE'S SISTER-IN-LAW, Could Jiding 1 scoff at such sweet, simple, faith? Had ever more doubt | ing man than I heard and 1 that pure, [good old woman telling, in her inno Picrro €, Van Wyck's succossor will ho | B0 T Loal %ot cuiile to bum on named by his district committeo, Ad-Setdays i vespect to the mother of journed “to meet Lt Richfield Springs Jesus Christ, he would have, at least, September 18th, Tho meoeting was en- | Seero Ci i gl tirely hurmonious, D to the state | " | As I left the cabin the gentleman who had accompanied me said: “Well, what do you think of Mary Broderick | €0N, she is a neat, respe woman,” “You know who she is!” “1 have heard, 1t .hun not | be any secret in Galway.” S“Well, it is true, she is Lord Dunsan dle's sister-in-law. She is the sister of the dead woman who was mother to all the Daly children up t the Manor. She is blood aunt of Willie Daly, who is, by 0 hook or crook in the bastard law, heir of the tigle and estates of his father, yet he lets her starve th within a half mile of his own howe, imetimes the Misses Daly stop to see the old woman and give her a sixpence or a shilling.” able old seem to hed Devils for the sizo of his | The family name is Daly. Al the | children that he acknowledged as his were: born out of wedlock, William | not straw. WITHOUT FOOD OR SHELTER. 1 was not surprised then to find the worst possible specimens of misery among tenants who were no kin, when the aunt to the lord's children was left a public pauper almost by her own broth or-indaw’s gato, hwr\whon- you go, somo cne points out great fiolds undor grass, where he remembers used to live hundreds of peasant farmers, who have within f years from time to time | boen 1 away from the land like rats from a house. Lord Dunsandle turned out 800 souls on to the roadside from Kiltulla one day without food or sheltor. i | the workhouse | He tumbled down man named Higgins him out and had him an old a house on The wifo | put unde roon | brid hard h The lord ordered the | tenant on whose land was the part of the | bridge where H s found shelter, to :dnn- him aw The tenant refused, and the lord, with Telp, drew the sluice and turned the water in on the sick man. Some boys notitied Martin O'Halloran { who told me the incident —and he had the man_ moved under another hridge on a Mr. Joyee's land. Dunsandle Joye sking him to send the man way m under the bridgo, but the lat was more humane, and declined to take any action at all. Higeins lived under the bridge for two years— winter and summer- when he died. | HOMES OF ABJECT POVERTY, In the Dog swamps of Cahernakelly 1 found three families of hard-working | peoplo at a distance of about a quarter to half-inle apart. My visit was at night. Not one of the cabins had a light. None of the people had been to mass for ten years for want of decent clo‘hes, Not one of them had a change; and all the fo- Wl but one garment each, a coarso, woolen dres The only food any n! them has is Tndian meal, and they do not have enough of that. One family of seven have been to bed several nights within the week fasting. They all have a little land, but it is bog and won't produce; besides, the times ) have been 5o bad that they are not able to get seed tosow. In'each case the fathers had been living on the land before them, one forty and one sixty years back. When, by tilling and drain ing and elearing of bog, the lard was so it would raise a little crop, the agent krented them, SAD SCENES OF POVERTY, house was that of Miel He has eight children, A pig is walled off'in one end of the cabin 1 a chicken coop in the other. Both ro empty. Boards are laid over the tops of these, and on them with very scant straw sleop the family. The fatler and boys sleep over the pig stye, and the girl on the shelf over m. coop. - She has a | wisp of hay between two poles, and there sho sleeps without any ecover but the dress she wears. Now, mark you, it is even diflicult and often impossible for these people to have straw enough to lie on. The horse fares far het Hanni The fir Haunify. sty 1 nine acres, for which he to Ds. % l‘l mas Wheelan has seven in his family. Hohas a gont and a_donkey. The gont gives milk for the Indian meal stirabout, which his neighbors cannot have. Instead of slooping on a shelf, ho has a room where the chicken coop in Hannify's is. 1 saw the bed, dirty straw, and old sacks for sheots, with one filthy blanket for cover. He has three and ono-half acres 5. He has been forty years on the place, and the land even yot is not fully veclaimed. It has taken two and three, and sometimes four tions to reclaim a fow acres of b Ho s oo rood of potatoes sown and the samo space in oats. That is all the seed he could get. DWELLING IN HOMELESS MISERY, Reilly's house is worst of all. The | front wall is bulging, and the turf-sod | roof is held up by three poles from with.- | in. Mo s delicate. He has a wife and | cight children, and only one and a | half of ground. When I ent 1 this wouse the family was standing around a | all plate of Indian meal stirabout “||l|nn( sugar, butter or milk, 50 to-diy: and T bolieve that much lattor | Was gone u little ehild far from satisfied, landlordism is due to a foar |said: *“Mamma, is there no more in the | of vetribution. Lord Leitrim 1 the |pot?” +No, Alanua, there s not,” was| penalty of his foul wrongs, There are |the sad response, These people have They slecp on gre which T saw with my own eyc During the summer these families earn two shillings a day. When that is over and cold winter comes they have no other prospect than to starve, They seem to ) rushes, lizo_their sad plights, Their vacant stare of hopelossnoss is heartrending, It was 10 o'clock at ning, when I left this sad abode Outside the door, to my surprise, were two police. The followed us from there all the way to the main road and on as far as their barracks, They had been eavesdropping. | —— The Apaches in Sonora, ToxpstaNe, Amiz, August 16,—A l..-‘-i,.l courier from the headquarters of the army operating against the Indians in Oposura, Sonora, Mexico, says the Apaches on July 30th, made an attack on the village of Nacori, where Lieut, Mor- ens is stationed, with a small force of plu\...l state troops, killing five of the picket guard, At daylight next morning Morens marched with the 20 men and found the savages to the number of 150 men strongly entrenched and was com- pelled to retreat. He made a second reconnoisance, accompanied by armed villages, but smmunition becoming ex ‘]mnuln made a md retreat. Several Indians were killed and more were slight- ly wounded, After the skirmish the | savages had things all their own way and drove off large herds of cattle, | | —am— The Davling is Safe, August 15.—D. H. Darling, ber of the firm of George lou .\ Co., and head of the Boston hous t for New York this ovoning. A, B, \\ul\‘ last member of the firm, is ill at Brooklyn, and know nothing of the failure until told by a friend, The Boston business is said to be thoroughly sound with no danger of u collapse and it is not believed here any other houses will be aficcted by the sus- pension, uht, dark and Bosros, socond mel Willian 1 —— Death of A, M, Herrington, CHicaso, O, —Augustus M, Herrington, United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under the administration of President Buchanan, and latterly one of the solici tors for the Chicago & Northwestern rail- roud, died at Geneva, Ill., yesterday. Many died on the road and in | wrote | When it | V THE OLD WOIII.D Alarming stptnms nf an Earthquake Felt in the Fated Island of lscma Italy Gets Hor Bnck Up and Threatens to Mount the | Sultan of Morrocco, Twelve Men Killed in a Coal Mine— Other ltems of terest, G ERAL FOREIGN NEWS. HARBINGERS OF RU Loxnoy, August 16.—There are alarm- ng signs of an earthquake in Serra, on the Island of Tschin, Springs are drying up and smoke is issuing from fissures in {the ground. The winister of publie works has issued anorder for the im- mediate eroction of huts for the accom- { modation of the peoplo in_case they are {emmpelled to vacate their houses, ITALY'S BACK UP, Grrarman, August 15, The Ttalian |e , has lowered the flag in the consulate, and the inhabi- lmn« are in consequence in a state of The hostile action on the { the envoy is on account of the sultan of Morocco not ing replied to the ultimatum of Italy insisting upon full payment of the claims of Italian subjects. There is an Italian squadron m the harbor in readiness to support the de- mands of the envo; ARTILLERY PRACTICH Loxvox, August b artillery meoting at Shocburyness to-day, the prize in repository competition, given by the Marquis of Lorne to the detachment shifting a gun in the quickest time, was won by the Canadifin detachment in splendid style, in 3 minutes 35 seconds; \'....1“ ich ‘arsenal detachment second, timo & minutes 68§ seconds. The com- mandant of the Shoeburyness s¢hool of gunnery paid a special compliment to the Canadians. The Prince of Wales has contributed one hundred pounds towards the relief of sufferers by the Ischin carthquake. K1 IN A MIN While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at {the mine of Red Ruth, Cornwall, to-d; attached to the car broke and twe the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. A y of depositors in a small save ik in London, angr bility to draw their mon: entered the bank and w | ses. tor |l‘] e, at their ina= y on demand, Ked the premi- The police called on rofused to in- aths from cholora in Cairo yes- in Alexandvin. COMMONS, 5. In the Commons ikruptey bill and na- passed third LONDON, t night, tional debt ing, and the second reading. The last named bill provides for,a government guarantee of one million pounds for opening the west- bill Tramways (Ircland) bill to orn districts of Ireland by light te: tramways, © The house agreed to the proposal that one hundred thousand pounds of the church surplus fund to_be applied to emigr posos. Trovelyan, chiof sccretary - for Ireland, assented to the suggestion of Parnell, that half of the sum be devoted to migration purposes, and promised to amend the arrears act so that the grant to emigrate should, in certain cases, raised to eight pounds per head. —— Moguls of Masonry. i, Augnst The selection of officers of the General Grand: Council of | the Royal Arch and Select Masters took at the triennial assembly now in session, with the following result: M. 2, (iene nd Master, G- M. Osgood, Butlalo, ] Grand y orge J. Pinckard, Orle H. General P, 0. and corge W Cooley, Minneapolis; P. Grand Treasurer Crestes, A. B, Columbus, Ohio; P. General rder, Benjamin T. Hallor, General Grand Captain of Senter, Grand R Memphi Guards, Itobert Van Wesales, Indiana; I, General Grand C. John Haig, Somer: oral Grand Marshal, Henvy 8, Orme, Los Angeles, Cal.; P, General Grand Stew- wrd, George L, Mason, Baltimore. oflicors were installed by the P. Grand Master Alfred T. Chapman, Gen- eral Grand High Priest of Boston, Mass. Funeral of Mrs. Allison, Dunvque, August 15.—The funeral services of Mrs, Allison was held at the family residence on Locust street this afternoon at 3 o'clock and was attended” by most of the principal citizens. They were conducted {yy Rev. Mr. Seymour, of the Episcopal church, A large number of floral offerings were sent in, The re- mains were entored in Linwood cemetery on a commanding eminence, overlooking the Mississippi river for mil LU Towa Militia, Farrieip, Ia., August 15,—The First brigado _encampment of the Towa Na- tional Guards, in progress here, is in good shape and doing excellent work. The average of proficiency in all military duty is much higher than ever before. I'he prize drill and Governor’s review oe- curs to-morrow afternoon, The contest nductor of Council, Mass.; P. Gen- for the first prize lies between the com- pany from Muscatine and that from She- nandoal SCROFULA Probably no form of disease 18 8o generally dis- tributed among our whole population as Scrofula, y Individual has this latent polson cours- 15, The terrible sulferings endured by thoso afMlicted with scrofulous sores cannot be understood by others, and the iutensity of thelr gratitude when they fiud & remedy that cures them, astonishes & well persou, We refer by per- ”ood!s mission to Miss Barah C. Whittier, of Warmer, N. H., who was cured by ; Sarsaparilla i ssmms of 18 Scrofula Sores the severity of which confined her to the house for two years, Six months previous to taking Hood's Bamsaparilla she could not get about her room with- out crutches. Her friend says: *1did not think it possible for her 1o live many months; she was re- 0 L HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mase, S0ld by Druggisties