Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1885, Page 1

THE OMAHA = DAILY “ BEE. I:‘()UI{T JENTH YEAR. HAIL TO THE CHIEF. President Arthnr's Last Reception at the White Honse of his family. Secretary Frelinghuysen en rtained the diplomatic corps ut breakfast at | — TRADES UNIONS, THR STRRNGTH OF THE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STAT Mr. Richard J. Hinton ary number of the an estimate of ths trades and labor crganiz tions in the United States, with the followin gives in the Janu. North American Review Was Fully as Large as that of Any Previous Year, INTERNATIONAL | —_— - mbership. & : - steel workers 42,00/ (v The Floral Decorations ware Very E (tritih) % (o) Elaborate and Handsome. Typographical union 11,940 (o) e RTE C ery’ uuion numn\'w The White House Transformed |Jifivyers sl inasons 000 (&) Into an Eden of Flowers, |Gias workers, . 7070 {e) ik Faruitu e worke 000 () Tocomotive engineers., 15,000 (o] The Ladies wero Handsomo and | Rtuiito o it 1960 (o) i Railroad brakemen and employes. . 18,000 (¢) Richly Dressed. Knights of Lubor (federation)... .. 150,000 (e) orkingmen's ussucia- During the Reception the Presidont o thul) was Called On by All Olasses Tron molders 14,000 (¢) Brotherhood of ers, P asterers..... Plamber: Tinsmiths. . of Society, JOEPTION, oy, January 1.—Now Year's } b 1..vale‘§.’-‘§'§'|’ . day has been genorally observed here, The | ) ilermakers and fron shipbuilders, 17, weather has besn almo:t as disagreeablo as a | Stationary engineers, Metal workers, hip carpenters German typog Telegrayhere, men Coal mincrs, state and natio Progressive cigarmake) Mule epinners (cotton fac Cctton weavers (cotton fa yoar ago, when it rained throughout the day. At12 o'clock a cold wind was blowing and suow F.lling, and befora night the atmosphere was thatof midwinter inclomency, However, it did not interfere with calliog, The rocep tion at tho white house, the lnst under Presi- pent Arthur’s admimstration, was as large as 10,000 (e) 000 (e) ,000 (0) 5,000 (e) 5,000 (e) that of any previousyear, Tho presidont was | pilki *¢4Yers 1,200 (e) assisted by a number of ladies ‘prominent in | Upholsterers, nociety, Who stood with him in the | Huroessmakers..... 0] blue parlor. The callers enterod the red [Pap:r hagers.... parlor and' paased through the blue | Kiouse brinte b akers, lasters, ¢t parlors, thence throngh thegrsen parlor into the east room, from w hich they made their ex- it. The floral decorations in corridor and par- lors wera as usual very olaborate and hand- some. In the lorg corridor and the red parlor thero were tropical plants and terns, All the chanceliers and mirrors were twined with emilax, The mantle in the blue room was en- tirely covered with cut flowers and blooming plants. In the windows thero were palms and are smail trades, | wanized, chieflyin the larga cities, whoie vumber is difficu.t to ascer taln, and many of whom arc fod- eratid with trides assemblics and contral labor uions, They may ritated at. ,000 (c) riy (Ameri- nd the Sceinlistic Democrats erng, croton and other foliage plants, In the| M catimated & 3.000 (o) green rooom there were flowering | Lotal estimate. ... 11,580 plants on the mantle and tropical plants § B in tho recess window. The four mantels in| () Betim A few of thete figares are from official sources, bub most of them are estima The Jumy toms for instance, does not betoken much inclina- tion to statistical accurasy From the federal cen<us of 1880 Mr. Hinton makes up a list of 5 persons who are in what are called *‘industrial” pur- aving out of the count the agricultural and also the laboring force emplo; in commerce, stores and ding gene the domestic help and other mi: wage-workers, and he concludes that fully one in five o the skilled wage-workers in the Lranches of industry covered by tha foregoing table ara con 4 with ths tr ions. the east room were decorated with pots of blooming primroses and a cheice variety of of other flowers. The ludies who assisted the president gathered in the library of the White House a fow moments before the reception be- gan, where the New Year's groetings were ex- changed with the president and his sister, Miss McElroy. At 1L oclock the murii band, stationad in the yestibyle, played to the Chicl,” and the ' receiving Emy entered tha blua parlor, M. Freling- nysen accompanied tha president in the blue parlor, Mrs. McElroy stord next to him, then Mrs, Sonator Edmunds, Mrs, Freling. huysen, Mre. McCull ch, Mrs, Chandler, Mis. Brewster, Mrs. Hatton, Mis, Teller, and the wives of rome of the juskices of the snpreme court, The other ladies of the re- ceiving party passed on into the green parlor. ‘The dresses ot the ladies were rich and hand- some, Al the ladies who were invited to recoive were in evening dress, while hose who callod to pay their respects were in visiting dress—that 1 short skirts and bon- nets. The colurs were dark and sabdued. Mre. Carlisle, who was published asamong the ladies who would ¢ssis; the president, wes not in the city. After an informal reception by the members of the cabinet, the doors wero opened and the diglomatic corps teceived, In the abiency «f Mr. Preston, mivister from Hayti. who s dean of the corps, Viscount Dus Noqu iras, minicter from Portugal, headed the dipum tic procession. “I'ha secretary of state stood on the left of the president, and pre:cated the represent.tives of the foreign powert. Thare have been many changes among the diplomats within threo yours, none of these now here having served fonger than six years, The members of the corpa were in sourt uniform. Tha Briti-h le- gation was represented by ministor the Hon. Lionel Sackville West. his eld st daughter, his second daughter. (who is & dsbutante Jand Miss Heard, theic guest, and Mr, Allea Joha- stonc and Mr. Helyer, tecretary of the leza- tion and Mrs Hely: The Chinese miuist is abrent and the logation was represenfed by Mr. Tsai Kiwok Ching, Dr. D. W, Partlett, ‘American secretary of the tion, and sev eral Chineses attaches, The o ioister from Avs- tris-Hungary, Baron Ignatz Scheffor, was accompanied by Baron Baumgortner act- acting sacretary of tae leg wion, Mr Rowmero, the Mexican miniter, is abssnt, so that loga tion was raprosented by the first and second secretares, They wo'e pauied by ths ladies « i their f milies. Mr., Charles Do Stra- va, mindster from Ruseia, was accompanied by TEKRIBLE DISASTER, A SCENE OF THE WILDEST COMMOTION LAST NIGHT. ial to the Chicago Daily News. Loxpox, December 81,—Last nightat Chol- Jet, in the department of Maine et Loire, on the Maine river, a large audience was gath- ered in the theater, when a part of tha roof fellin. A scene of indesceibable confusion followed. Every light was extinguished and grosos and shrieks rent the air, Per- sons who were uninjured made a mad rush for the street, trampling persons down in their hurry and fright, Women fainted and children screamed. At first it was thought hundreds had been killed, but when the the- atre had heen cleared 1t was learned that but few were fatally hurt. Over a hundred were ivjured by the falling debris and in the panic which ensued, but no one was killed ontright. Several persons received injuries which it is foared will pr: ve fatal, but they were at once teoderly cared for. The building was only a temporary affair, avd had been damaged greatly by recent heavy storms, ——e——— Coal Mining Affai PiizaDELYAIA, Janugry 1. —Respocting the coal meeting held in New York recently, it is stated to-day by a prominent Peunsylvavia railroad official, that his compeny had not to the par centage allotted in Novem- £ to the proposition presented for o re- striction in mining. In facr, they have uot agreed to any proposition offerad, —————— The Raging Susquehanna, WiLkesnArge, Pa,, January 1. -The ice gorge in thy Susquebanna river broke this AT A OMAHA, NEB,, FI ADAY MORNI CENERAL NEWS. A Very Interesting Bodget of Wash- inpton News, Grand Preparations for the Com= ing Imangural Ball Representative LairdiEMeets with a Serious Accident. Fatal Duel with Shot Guns in Tenunessee, The New York Municipal Muddle Still Continues, Pickea Sea—~Wreck German Bark Lile—1Tu, Up at of the Explosion. THE INAUGURAL BALL, WasHiNGTON, January 1—The inaugo tion commttee desire that Ml_w\.:u fatending to visit Washington on the 4th of March should communicats to the committeo the number of persons included in ths organis zation and their intended stopping places and other particalars, xo that & position in the line of procession may be reserved for them, snd other necessury arrangaments made, The Al buny Jackson Numbering 70 men and o band of 25 musiciaus siguified thelr int niion to attend the_inaugurstion and applied for places in the line. ~ The commandant writes that the corps have tendered to escort from Albany to Washington to the president-elect who is a life member of the organization, but no reply has yet bean recsived. The committes on public order express a de- termination to have Pennsylyania avenuc from the capitol to the White House cleared of all vehicles and obstructions on the 4th, so that the procession way not be thrown into disorder, Ths committee state that the inaugural ball will bo made s prominent fea turo of the occssion, and it is expacted t) +urpass anything of th kind ever mtempted in this country, and the work is progressing rapidiy in tne pension building, and the fons grand ball room undoubtedly will be completed in season, The cowt of the building, which will be roofed over to_form the ball room, is 816 feet in lesgth by 114 feet in width, sirrounded by thrao viers of corridors 22 feet in widih. The magaificent structure atfords ample_opportu- nity for decorstion of a most striking and elaborats deccription, which the committee guarantee shall be provided. 1t is estimated 15,000 goests can be_accommedated, but the number of tickets Wil be linuted to 12,000, the hunor of furnishing the music for the ball. Dodworth's band, of New York; the Germa- pia orchestra, of Philadelph rine tand, of this competitore. The committze hus practically decided to have three bands, one stationed in others for proweande music. WASHINGYON NEWS, ANTAGONISY OF THE HOCSE AND SENATE. WasiiNG10N, January 1 that batween the housc und the senate, seems to incresserather than to diminish. It has reached & pomnt in which party rentinent and affiliation are sunk in ke oppositin house to the other, The democrass publicans of the heuss join ia_condemuing the senate for what they tern despotism to usurp the entirelegislative functions of con. was being gradually reversod, said he, the revenue bitls now come from the senate arbitrating snd dictatorial and senate shull stand firm in the assertion «f its rights it mieht as well be content to sit here A democratic mic bill. porter to-day. dou’s want any log of railway traffiz, Chere ar n 2 good many wh £ the futerested in the railroads thi euppossd avd all that opposed toany such Legisl ¢ o some pretty strong tall upon the subject and Tpredic t now thav congress will not do any thing this session beyond. pass ng appropri tion bilis.” Tha sanie paper has 1hs- follow- ing: “Blond, chaimman of tha house com- is is_ vileatly I haveheard his w.fo and secrotary, Mr Groger. Krance was raprosentea by Mr Thedora Roustan,ths | moroing near Manticoka, Tae water has minister, Me, Lo Comote Maurice S visen twelye feot above the low witer mark, the of thy legation, | covering the lowlands on the west ¢ida, Com- e nister a8 did Mr, Paul [ muvi with Kingston and points along 1 tiry and chancollor, Mr. | the Delaware, kawanna & Western rail- Rub: nd his wifa, Ths Ger- |road ara cut off for the present, ——— Aggrava Chicago News One *“Algerncn L. George, London, ! was registered at the Hoffnan house, New rk, lust Sunday., This sort of thing may piss in New York, but what positive assur- auce have we that this ssume person was not Dr. George L. Miller, of Omaba, traveling incogrito. We,regret to say Dr. Miller established a very aggravating precedent, —— The Kl New York, Janu poration of the electric railroad to run from Far Rockaway to Long Islind railroad, have been filed, Capital, £200,000, man minist'r, Mr. H, Von Alvensleban, was pro.out, asweie wl the foreign 1epicsoutas tives who w0 in the city. The ju tices of the United States supremo court. accom pavied by the ladies ot their househ 1+, were next received. I tha absen e of Cbist Jus- Justice Miller was tice Waite, who is ill, first roceived, followed by the other jus tices, Chief Justice and Justi @ Mat:hiws waere tho only absentese, Senut rs and repre sentatives in congr 8%, of whom there was_sn unusully large attendance, came next. They wore followed by the representatives of the army and navy, nestly every officer on duty or visiting the city being in line, The army delegation was hoaded by Lientenant Genar- . ol Sheridan, and the naval officials by Ad- miral Porter, Next came the chifs of the various departments; district officials; ex- woembers of the cabinet now in the city, and the civic associations. The grand army ug recedent, «d Murder, Raveigh, N, C,, January 1.—Alex Black, e tabublle Bl hitRoiacly (1AM | colored, mear Dover, shot aud killed s wife Topresntatan o poth yhite and colored: | aud Mark McOlose, Ta cau'e of tho orime citizon’ voseption beg m, and this contivued | 19 Wnknown, The murderer ercaped. until Duing the entire time ul- w—— lotted for the citizens to pay their respects to The Weathe: Proside ¢ Arthur, representatives of almostall | - Wasuinaron, January 1.—For the upper grades of soclety passed thiough the various parlors. Tho omployes of the executive man. sioa wera the last to extenda the New Yesr grooting to the chief exicutive. When the peoplo bad all duparied, the president called ¢ bis_ hoso ' aad toc a ot aide. Ho ° rotwned to the White House and dined with the membars Mississippi valloy; Warmer and fair weather, preceded in the southern portion by a slight fall in the temperature; variable winds; full- h|1 barometer, For the Missouri valley: Warmer and fair weather; winds shifting southeasterly; falling barometer, mictee on coinge, weightsandme isuces, says that he coes nov think the ¢ ommitt:e will ra- ckner's bill for the suspen 1on of the port B Quite a Jively contest is in progress between the musice] organizations ¢f the country for y, exe the most prominent the center of the hall for dauce musiz and the The Star says the fealing of antagomism, for it amonats to unless the and pasa only such bills as the houss chuoses to eend over, An ugly feeling seenus fo be arising over_the inter-state commerce nber eaid to a Star re- resulation are perha, s more men in congr.1s cithor divectly or indirestly generally member of Tammany hall. Magor Kirk ro- mained in the may.t's office raseiving the con- gratulations of frionds untilsnoon, Mayor . ace made his appearance st that honr. NEw YORK, #anuary 1.~ The feeling the city hall to-day fa by 5O S0ESHN s futanse v on yosterday and lnst night. The princi- pal events of the mariing wers the appoint monts of made by Kirk, who has been idnight ho appointed Col hout 5 r Edson'sibrother-in-law, and Taa leader, in tha®4th nssembly district__as ¢ rporation @ouneel, and Jam's M. Leddy, another Tmmary man, s own chief clerk, Both gentlomen qual ified immediately. Col, Wood thenwent over eoffive of Corporation Gafiusel Lacombe wnd 0ado a fo semand fop posscision _of the office, Lacombe declined to surtender and Wood retired, At 12:30@'clock Mayor clect-Girsge enterad fhe mayors office whicl was crowded with Grace's frignds. The new mayor made a brisf address of thanks for his recoption and assumed bis new dutica of {hs mayorality, and after a sharttime the politi- cians hegan to leave the building, Hubert 0. Thempton saya he will mike no opposition to Mr. Squire when the new sommissioner of public works comes to take possession of the department, Corporation Counsel Lacombe notificd Mayor Grace of Col, Wood demand wpon him, and asked for protection. 1 herevipon tho maycr ordered a *detail of police of-sufficient force to assure the corporation connsel fn. & peacgable oud undisturbed po office, and to preserva the proper records of ths city from interferance by pereon,” The . police remain_on guard all njght. An other complication has arisen by the election of Alderman Waita to the presidency of tha board in_sbsenco of Alderman Kirk and Whaita claims that Kirk cannot be elderman wnd mayor at the same time. Practice Revived in nessce, Shot-Gun Ten- Rockwoop, Tenn., January 1 V. Derosset and Danicl Pass engaged in a_street duel yosterday. They hada difficulty the day previous, and each swore vengeance. They met on the street ta-day and hegan firing at each otber with ehobgune, Derosset recerved o lond ia the face another in_the arm, and Pass was shot in the neck and fore- head. Both of the men are mortally wounded, Picked Up At Sea. New Yonk, January 1.—Ths Nerwegian bark “Onward,” which anived to-day, reports 1g i with & raft on which wero the ¢ tain and four of tha crew of the schooner *‘E: telle.” Captain Day, of the ¥Estelle,” states that he left Charleston on Décember 16th for Philadelphia, When off Cage Lookouton the 18th, the vessel went l)‘JI"'E(E in a heavy sea. ‘Ike Taft was constructed all gafely on hoard, but thy seas washed over them continually, ng, Jost his Hold on tho raft swept away and drowned, On the aft was picked up and the psssengers brought here, Tho “Est:lle” was valued at $10,040. The Ohicago Tug Explosion, Ci10AGo, January 1.—Tha corpse of Cap- tan Green, of the tug Admiral, blown to pleces on the river last night, was found to- day in the Jumber yard near the scene of the explosion, The body was thrown two hun dred feet and oivested of clothing, the left leg broken and the head nearly severed from the body. ‘The rem iins of Bugineer Hogan aro still missing, aud up to a lats hour no traces have been discoverad of tha two men who besidas the crew of three tvare stated last nivht to be abrard the iug. Inquiry to-day leases but lictle doubt thert wera five victim The 1dentity of the paic of srangars, how- ever, is nct yet definitely aseurtalued. pat——— RAILROAD KAOKET, Drs Moixes, Towa, January 1.—The elac- tion of the dircctors of the Des M & St Touis railroxd here to-day resulted as follow James F. How, W. H. Bl zett, A. A. Tal- madge, A, L. Hopking, D, 8, H. Smith, 3 . Polk, J. 8. Runnels, T, M. Hubbell, The Des Moines & Northwestern_elected, A, L. Hopkins, A. A, Talmadge, J, F. How, J. S, gress. Holman smd tc-duy that under . Tk end the _constitntional method of legislation | Ay Fole, (e St T s low F. M. Hubbell, J. . Potkand J. T, Granger. The Dos M. ines Union railroad eompany ihoreas all of then rhould origineto in the | icated, M. Dodge, I Mookt J. S Rannels seoms to bo unanimous that the house is |yl Agpkine, A.A. Talmadge, F, M. Hub- bell, J. 8. Polic and J. Kansas Crrv, Janudry Rich Hill, Mo., special Pacific passenger train hours to-day by near Butler,” A wreck als> oceurred_on the St Louis & San Francisco road near Hulstead in shich the postal csr was burned avd consider- ablg other damage dore. — More From Lockwood's Diary, January 1,—Tho National Republizan this morning contained farther extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant Lock- wood, of the Greely Arctic colony. coverivg the holiday week and New Year's day spent at Cape Subine, These extracts give a con- tinuation of the etory of the starvation of the party and tell of various devices resorted toby them to overcoma the pangs of hunger and to %, How. ~Tha Jourr The Mi. > nage of silver dollars favorably. fiiared, i i o, Bi T o V. | while away the tedium of their existence. Ba- e eaSommities Wil | meet OXE| ginning with Decomber 26ih, the day after and Blund will opposs. tha il He. eage | Christmas, when they broakfasted “late” on T J Y® | goup made of seal blubber aud supped on whenever there shall b any silver lozislation it murt be the unlimit.d coinage of silver, but tho question rhould ba let aiono s this, sew- | " Gitry for December 26, Lieutenang |gullty on Sunday, To s gererally known(sre now patbors In a recons meirviow at | bSO b i adapted s ak eter e e ot halleyald &> | Liockwood says that in addition to the mol | that he was very drunk o that day, and that he world, and my friend, | follows: The general freight depsrtmeniihof 2 is'the lesstlrobability cf the passing of any | aboye mentioned o had “a few broad crumbe |1 was dragged through the strecta by o run- | Fitsy O rdil hero wwll. actop o chllonge SV H : ofp . ° il and some salt water and gunpowder,” which | b e 5 # ille S S o i b s act reste: iyg silver coinage a6 this soslon. | TiongZ'warmed for him over s lamp, * Hosays: [#W3Y fewn in a way that would huve killed | from suy one exeapt Sujivon. We' w10 Wk | royuost of o mercantilo firo, o peralf g H says 10 far ut the house i conosrned, aven | 7% SCt Yoo daal of tale fo-tlay on- tha | an ordinary man, but the full extent of hig | 0 0UF way to Bew Ocleans to wect Pat | B £ 8 SCARERE O GO it the Buckuer bill should be reported from | ,r y;a0ts of ~getting across the straits in the | carousing sud its effects bas not been 10ade | e 3f we ¢ bR 8 7 ¥ 4 the coinage committee, it would not pass, He eI B AR A e et 3} LS A #ee if we can’cariive atsn BIEN . am | embers of the firm ha oceasion go thioks thore would be & two-thirds voto of the | REIE 06 £ 402,60 thore, otc, . We coun | LuDlic: Sullivan has B in 8l | mady, e & Hatsl WL Bullkyan b9 Aoy 106 Hice el Site gt ient), o Il entitle houte against it, and McMillan does not be- | Sh45 H Pl Vi . His conduct | if he's satisfi-d to mieet me, either in New . Heve such & bill would pats the senate, Tho | o8 240 rations as certain at Littleton island. | 1ol that finally his wife left| York or New Orleans. I won's consent to|the legitimate holder the to purchas houss comuittes on coinaga stood five to five on the Buckner bill until the arcval of Chsir. man Bland, His presence maks the commit tec stand 665 agamst the bil, o theraima very little prospace of its gewting out of the committee, Iu the senate the financs com. mittee have agreed to d.fer the consider ati of the silver question until the arrival af Sen ator Jones, (1 +oon after the assemblivg of congress, The New York Aldermanic Muddle, Niw Yonk, Javusry 1.—Jndge Truax ha not given his decision in the matter of dis:olv. ing the injunction restraining the board of al. dermen foom doing any official act, board remains in office until January 5th, Mayor Kirk arriyed at the city hall at 11:50 this a. w., and sppointed Colonel B. T, Wood § Col. Wood is the broth- corporation counsel. erin-law of ex-Mayor Elson aud a leading New York, whois¢xpected very Tke “Euglish meat,” the record is carried down to January 1, C—— Bessemer Mi s Reduce Wages, R ioo, 4 f P ratos, h trip tigkel Pir1abung, January 1,=The Pittsburg Bes-| ot No. 4 Lovering plscs, Jiss bean brokon up, | buig—why, I wouldn't. 1hins of 5 T okt & | 00 A6 regulac tarift ratus, . ‘l’._;"’ |‘|L l'f | somer Steel works, at Homostead, have posted | and all of “his belongings have hoen removed. | woew’s enigagenent to come h-ra to” spar at a | #0 sold is provided with o vaub which will "be L e that o Wodneadar noxt thew il | Sullivan's sproo seems to huve culminatod | benefit for the strk ng Hocking Valley miners [ detached aad retalnod by the purchaser us ot i of e oot (e Y| Suuday uight in - great dnnlfn which |and Ui msyor woulont gove o alicene” | videnco of faro puid. When a mufoion o die i f wie a1 onds joined bim. John hirad & span o ——— ; el L0 e ey oLl e somvertini L horscs and a double saigh, and the st hasrd 0O Ban e o om o number of these bave been purchased and works employ about 1,000 men —— Texas Oattle Perish by Cold Weather. 8r. Louts, January 1.~ Advices from ex treme southwes ern Texas state that the re cent cold weather was quite destructive tc live stock in that section, large numbers of poor cattle and sheep haviog perished. e Death of Col, John M, Frye, Liw1ston, Me , January 1.—Col, John M Frye, father of United States Senator Frye, died this morniog aged 82 years, | L RN e e ¥ 1 - ey - L N » NG, JANUARY 2 NO. 164 an stru { his horees a sledge | mer n 'y THE LATEST NEWS. | iirentiones PILIGAL INTERVIRW —_— licemsn cam ud order him to desist, . — Protest Against Gorma Aucexalion of| e ecin ey ienointaic . | §ith - Pregident-Blet Cloveland b New Guinca. ek Tot B By e Si0nily, who, Wy &l Aibany. - slugga s, John next jumped into the ] - L4 pted to drive do Oak Khartoum All Right-~News From bd, Polioy is of tha Double Dis= den. Gordon. mer, swarvedup Washington illed Jacksonian. ith _dranken —— g the toins A W dea . ' F @ladstons ' for “aix hundred ias Calls ic a Dead Opsn and } e » mud and elu with the leigh o Tho tenm was stopped and the Shat. bedraggled prizo fighter was pullid out, He » wa i voking obj ', bus pp B e - ] Ol id a 1 ol ght as fever, Tho gi . . Death of the Son of Maj. Gon. |whim i sssaultod v fuond b i o cor-| Ho Will Walk Through Philadel= plaint against him, aud as a seoond resoure movement is on fous to pr sveute Sullivan for cruelty to the horses. The champlon has since o Havoock. phia scbare ud was pr sont to-night at two Torrible Disastor at the Burning| gk tosbetween Tug Qolling and 0Nl 21 And Inspect Sam Randali’s Cele= of a French Thoatre. T I brated Truck Fatch, au e ement on Brooklyn stage Sullivan’s Lmst Drank—an Aggra-| '\,"”“T"“L:“‘l"' "1‘*1":':.”. e | A Special Correspondont Captuves Niw Yonk, January 1.-Th snnoutce vy fLo e bbbl ) ment of lower rates on the Baltimore & Ohio the Bun—The Inaugural S much attention Foreshadowed. nd provoked com- The Mutual attrected ph men a aph lives among the te mente on that class of business Union company now annonu redu tion_in New York, as follows: b Chi. to St Louis, Cincin wnd 5 1o wll offices in nd, Connectiout phis, Baltimore and Wash'ng: FOREIG) RAILWAY COLLISION IN ENGLAND. ToxnoN, January 1, A coliision occurred to day at’ Bamesley June between the Sheffield excureion tr.in a conl train. Four persons were kiiled and thirly injured. PROTEST AGAINST GERMAN ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA MELBOURNF, January 1.—-The government Victoria has iustructed its London agent to protest agaipss ths anvexation of Ne Guinea by Gemany. It xays it vhe territory is not reclaimed aad the snnexation of the Now Hebrides by France be permitted the estrangement from the mother country of the col.nies will be increased. ANOTHER DYNAMITE HOAX. Losnoy, January 1. -Another dynamite Tonx has been perpeteatod on the public. A vag containing two pounds of iron filings with a fusa attached was found under the arch at THE INTERVIEW, Special Dispatch to the X hiladelphia Evening Call. Aunasy, N ntern Massachuset: ) Phila , 10 conts, Y., Decembor 27.—1 have just had a very ratisfactory interview with Cleve- land. I found him at his ofticial desk, piled head high with letters of advico and sugges- tions for his ivaugueal. As I entored the room ho had just fivished for the New York Tiibuno a thousand-line editoriasl vn the Miseries of Being Loft are you?’ he _asked, as 1 seated ow, with all the cordiality of ser_editor. “‘Have you, teo, ——— GRAND ISLAND ¥ To the Editer of The B, Grasp IsLAND, December land is mantled by snow and hs christmas, Riailrond men are complainivg fof the threatened reduction of wages. (ireat num- bars are seeking employiment of any sort and s00 want staring them in the face. Monoy is som ething to be rewembered, not seen, now. Our peoplo will have the electric light in ~Grand ls- s had a fro a great news A come with a valise full of advice?” “No; T am a nowspaper dotectiv, and hovo been commissioned to find out your policy.” He Lamar smile, with a touch in it of Butler ‘smiled, Tt was a Tilden-Hendricks- o Waterloo dopol about twenty daye. The movement for the | 1 th et i the Waterloo doput, _ aawronsc At man, | Etabo taiewill fafl most probably. Nok enaugh | enile and Dr. Mary Wolkes swectiog (4 § = e otl room and oo expensive to build for this | YA Uhe (husien oL UL e | ., Dho oo erop s splendid, aud Gus | ¢ Vhora aro you_from?” ho_axked, with a ceived n small picee of paper with Genernl | Kochler's lake supplies onouh for the entire | | thore are yeu fromt’ ho axked, with |8 S abar s myiag. Ahartorn s all ngnt: oA | g and countzy. 1 0 Digkie i dmn g 4 mber 14/ say s ght. Thusiness very dull, chiefly clowng mort. [P0k L 3 dispatch Bas becn received from Mudie stat- | o LUSTom SV ST QUG T, BonR e o From Philadelohis? T rep d, with & ing that tho Axub from ths Muhdi's camp | E¥E%08 " Whors will 5 onds 1o the |10tk contanaial expetition piide. | retchod Dongols. Ho uffeu that tho Mab | {5010 K010 uters poskes and emptyini the | L Ib-delplia?”™ Lot me secs T'vo heard 0 e B e e I that villago on my way to Washington, don't South of - Omdorman, - They repeatedly | e BT Ot b Tt by th | 17, Sam Randall's truck pateli i near there, attacked Omderman, but have bein repulsed ith o heavy loss and compelled to retreat to avelnek. Gordon upon Iéarning that the jouin Arabs came to the wells during the night sent armed boats to guard the wells, causing great suffering among the rebels, many of whom died of tmall pox and dysen: tery, the Mahdi therefore withd:ew his army people as against the railroad monopoly, Time will tell. Tho Roy officers lag Wus most, os,” T murmured, with the faintness of a T.onguo T-land appropriation. *‘But wa bave the Liberty bell, the tallest tower in thoworld and » ferry to Camden.” “I will stop and look at thow as T walk to my inauguration, I love rnral sights, So you want to know my poheyt” 1 Arch Chapter installed their new atorday evening. The occasion teresting, and Jotinny Moore, U. P. agent, made a little speech when he pre- sontad @ cane to the ous going High Priest (Howard) that was worthy to be ranked with to Jabb.ro, two duys from Gunioeman. | broctor Knotta Dututhy or Mark Twain'a | Yot indeedand Lopcsod my note-book wveral tribes Subsequently desertec b vén G ettty 2'as Burchard's mouth, The “Mahdl - told - hig St cipal \‘x]wh fi% t the banquet given Grant in Chicago in ol 1 b (,m{\""y.“xyg“,:", he intended to march agaiost Mudir oty Is on tiptes, straining ear and eye, | POYErs never quota me correctly.” My Dongola, Tho fehiefs professed a rendiness | ¢o'cavoh tho tidings that arn floatiss in the |15 double distilled Jacksovian, Watterson, vard mixture, with s dash ofCons utional bitters stirred with an old demor tic spoon—not the Butler pattern qr the F Davis variety.” i nd your cabinet?” T venturcd to ask, with tha Jeok of a fur.away angel. g 1 have no ohicclions to making it publie and allaying the anxiety of thepeop's (norye Frnnui" Train, Dr, Mary Walker, Scrgeant Pates, 0'Donovan Ross?, Joha Swinton and. St John will ke my cubioet, unless I cange- cara better i *How about the: tariff ek “I am studying that sobject duringmgs Iuach hour. Thus far I bave arrived at the' conclusion that high taiiff low teriff and no tariff can be so adjusted by the rule of three as to follow if the Muhdi would charm off tha bulletts of tha enemy by leading, instead of following his troops. ext day the Mahdi told tht chisfs;that Mudir was n saint against whom it was useless to figt. This statement can ed groat alarm in the Mahdi'scamp. WISMARCK DON'T CARE FOR GLADSTONE, PrRuN, Janaary 1. —Bianurek, in a con] veraation with o newspagce correspondent to- duy, denied that he had any pereonal enmity against Gladstone, He gard ha view: d with equanimity the party struggies in England, He ceuld havs relied” upon Lord Beacousfield to keop Eogland in accord with the rest of 3 but whatever Gledstone’s policy & matter of_bittle concern to uir about mmriages and divorce, love and scandal. Of the one many are on the tapis; «of the other the “‘woods are full of 'em.” isut. Omaha has had quite a surfeit of “'shedy” sensations lately, so let us smother our sing and *‘woo the anpgel virtue in the fuiure”—if we can, “A-prominest yeal exbate man is mourning over the conduct of a companion, to EAVe whom from jast punishment ha walked up to tha captain’s offic and paid for ham, corned beef, and other articles stolen. Tha saddest par of it is that the friend had no need to steal and did fo solely by reason of mative cusedness-—a doggish kelptomania. The democi ats have atwut decided to order wd e tsstoaEweld 4 Svaddil ift, | tiform hours of labor and matorially adding to mcock's Loss, mission would make u vice weddiog gHE. |00 fiks of taxed capital aud the fluctuating A They give as a reason for this recymmenda- | the profits of taxed capital e ago Times" ticn, the belief that he woold distribute tho [ Woges of tho working mav, nud this, too, without distusbing the national banks or ine terfering with silver coinage “What shall I eay In regard to your views on civil eervice reform?”’ | questioned, with a vo'es trembliug with admiration at his per- Niw Yoix, Detember 31 —Russell Han- cock, son of Mej.-Gen, Hancock, died on Tuesday at his cotton plantation near Clarks dale, Miss. mail whoen not more than an hour lato, Since the “Custer Couuty Tragedy” was published, one_of our newapaper men has loarned not o *'fly his kite so high”—a much needed lesson, by the way. The telegram announciog his death reached | A revoltivg crime against nature has just [ SPICHIEY- p ;i Yy ATt Gen, and Mrs, Hanoook todag, It x mot |boen discovered here; tho particulara are’ at | +HRepeat what Thavaes of en sald: Publio B this timo withheld for prudentfal reasons, | ©ffice is a public frust. Tho public. trust t even known that he was sick, and his wife nd th get the o will b Lightning sometimes stri s in high as well as M nd three children startod on Tuesday even- | low places and this time its lance was aumed | FFust to trustworthy I ““"_“‘Ih"" g %0 join him at his p'antation, They | welup. tru t beyond tha trust they get .:l\v T p wul bestopped by telegram at St Louis, | A well-knowa stcckman, J, here the presi.ent-clect, )\.'mln” o visibly, where the tunersl will take place. Geo. | late of Wyoming, returaed y and toyed so with his right Ll n-lxtl 4 Hanoock and Mr. Gwyan started for | trip Weat. . J Jesne! friendy corrasuonnent ook Wi rapidly by thy han 8t. Louis this cvening. Mrs, Hancock was | know that ho will keep opan house for it lstened to the telegraph office with this Be ser double load it It ANANIAS importont dispatch, beusts the deck. comple prostratsd by the eh confived £ her 1ed. Russoll Hangoc born in St. Louis twensy-four y s was s g0, wnd now that'his bride has consented toreside here permanently. With the assurance that our merchants and wus an ovly son. He e1 in New |other business men will rafely bear the new dent to Hepresentative Laivd. Hayen, and married a dunghter of Nicholas | year's pressure, and ridothe commercial storm- e R e § f Louisville, aud now in | wave, we wish THE BEE a happy New Year, ANGTON, L ANBATY Co: eto iR 2 ns will b3 buvied in ths | and bid it *‘good-bye.” Soio. | |Yaird, of Nebraska, met with a severa acoi- secll family in Belefontaine e —— dent while oub riding to-day. His hor<»slip- on cemetery, St. Louis, The young man’s death loaves Gen, Hancock chilaless, his danghter having died in this city in 1875, Bporting Notes, There was to have been a grand eparti New Brighton, Pa, on Chri-taias, ¢ Grantand John oyce, the laster of nis, 0., beiog adve tic1 as the prin pal attractions. The affaic did not take bl however, as Graat and his fiiends, who Yo part in toh, diseo ntend+d to o pavement and fell, throwing him und and fulling wpon bim, bicakiog s above the ankle. The physicians as sustatned o ¢ omponcd fragture ! o th only 4 ped o b Eulli Chicazo Tir Bosrox, John L., Sul vectal, December 30.—The friends of & boan doing thelr utmest 2 a day or Lwo to keap quiet a most inglo:i- of which the champion was t 4o local drummers i with to-day the €., t. P, and C. & W, iing tickets to v be of inter to know thut commenc Q,the €., M. & [ , refused Lo fight. d ous escapade Dou nick McCafTrey Patwoy Cardiff | wiil's 3ot o new system of him, taking with her thew infant son, and ¢ to Providence, Tha champion's flome, fizht anywhere else, They didu't treat me well in Boston, ro T won' o there; and Pitts commurcial trip tickets from on to Bta of thom was at Yeaton's saloon, No. 865 Washington streat, whore the party went for supper at about 7:8) o'clock. Sullivan was very ugly, and insulted a waiter.girl, who used by the pevson holding a permit, and covering & distance of one thousand miles or more, the detached etuby, together with the Buinciay, Ala, Jaouary 1.—Randall and party urrived hers on a special train from Nashville at 8:30 o’clock this morning, They ve him & sharp ret Thereupon | vieited too Pratt wines snd other places of | Permit, can ba surrendered to the raflway champion slugger stru'k tho girl | interest. company by the tiom in whoso interests the ;AU Blo In thufaen, , Asgines difer s —r——— travelor uses the tickuts, aud the diffefence k3 o the gextent of the gird'a inju- recking, otwi ld, anc - £} Ko, “Tho folice olaim that she was' nob serls “ hetween the regular fare puid, snd the fate of 4 G, Jannary 1,— express train on the Baltimora & Ohio road dus at Grafton 8t 10,45 was thrown from the track by the placing of a bar of iron in a f hy an un- kuown persou. The eogmser and firoman wore killed, onely hurt, buta viore common repottis that e +ho wvas knocked insensible to the floor, and that Sullivan kicked her as shia lsy prostrs L | 1t is further alliged that the paty lefo the s | girl where she fafl, finished their upper snd left the place, On reaching tha sidewalk Sul- two (2) cents per wilo will bo refunded with: S8 ¥ out delsy tothe firm presenting the rebates By this plan the illegitimate salo of and frangs fer of the wileage tickets heretofore u-u;-u be prevented. ~ e g Seal of North Carolina Smoking Tobacco. Seen teverywiiere, Because every- where recognized fe Sacls: o VTTT, cfectthe dost y | ] L«L;t Jofdmaa L:&}ria m:vo/"['.g(a e ')éw\,;. Gondumer, lue; and store Eten.