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FIFTEENTH YEAR. LINCOLN'S MORPHINE MAMIA, | A Oyprian’s Failing Effort to Find Relief from Barthly Cares, A CHILD DIES FROM NEGLECT. Two Crooks Captured-A New Lodge Organized—A Batch of Spicy State Specials from Bee Correspondents npted Suiclde. 2. [Special to the shortly after the arrival of the train from the east, a man and woman entered the Windsor and registered under the name of Frank Dobson and wife, They were assigned a room to which they immediately repaired. Shortly after the man eame down stairs and left the hotel. e did not return until after midnight, and on going to the room found the woman in an uncon- selons state. He at once gave the alarm, and physicians being summoned pronounced the case one of morphine poison. Vigorous remedies were applied and the woman was resuscitated, although for a time it was feared that she was beyond medical assist- anee, It was soon discovered that the would- be snicide was a_cyprian from Mollie Hall's notorions dive and that the man j: numerous ganblers who infe: 8000 a8 her condition would per woman was fired from the hotel man’s name is Bianche «#he was at one time an inmate of Mollie G Son's bagnio in Omaha. No reason is giv for the attempt at suicid rept she had Deen arinking during the day and took a dose of morphine as a finale to the debauch. THE WOLK OF SINNEIS, Sunday night three pistol shots were heard on O stréet al the corner of chih, nic much excitement, On the arrival of the police it was learned that o row had been in progress, out of which the shots arose. everal arrests made but nothing dennite regarding the one who fired the shots could be learned, although one of the special police. was on the ground when they were ired, Burglars effected an entrance into Bo an's butcher shop by breaking open the drilling nto the safe and blow . ured some $20 in cash, Lincowy, Neb, € A Sad Affair—Coroner's Investigation. HasTiNGs, Neb., Oct, 25 ‘The coroner’s jury in the ease of Anna aged 8 years, found dead in hed ot her home efght miles southeast of this city, found upon examination that the body had received several brui: there being a num- ber of swellings and abrasions. The left armand lowerlimb were considerably swollen and discolored, and bluish red spols were visible along the left side and along the #pine. There were also purple marks under he throat and wnder the left ear. The back and fingers of the left hand were also #wollen and dlscolored. The abdomen had all tarned purplo and the general appearance of the body, m'hldlmi'htlm symptoms above deseribed, togethor with the emaciated con- dition, led to the conclusion that the child bad been subjected to rough and cruel treat- ment and neglect, There was no conclusive evidence, however, that death resulted from any recently inflicted wounds or braises, but it scems to be the fmpression that death’ was r)ns result of long neglect and rrlwlte', and ack of proper medieal attendance and treat- ment. She was evidently a frail and sickly child; Four years ago Mr. Snavely lived near yr, in this county, and his wife ran away with another man.” ‘The only blame atiached to the woman by the neighbors was that she did not take the child with her. Mr. Snavely, the ‘reputation of belng a worthless and shiftless churacter, has favined the child ont’ to different partiés to care for her, and the family in whose house she was found dead was not able to give her the proper care demanded by her delicate health sinee she was left there last June b? her father, who has not visited her sinee. In all probability 0 eriminal charge will be bronght against r, and Mrs. Halte, at whose house the girl . Snavley secms to be wholly indit- ferent in regard to the sad affair, for which he 18 no doubt in a large measwe re- spousible, Two Orooks Captured. BLOOMINGTON, Neb, Oct. 25.—([Special to the Bep.)—J. B, Duck and I. M. Rose were arrested yesterday by Sheriff Hamilton, of TYork county. ‘They were taken into eustody tm complaint of n_jew: at York, named Westoyer, for securing $1,500 worth of goods under fal guqlcnsum Arriving at Duck’s place the capfuring party went into the house and found Duck and Rose. They told them they had o couple of land buyers out- side and asked them to show them the Baker farm. Both went out and when with feet of the buggy the sherift jumped out and ‘grabbed the hunds of botl in'a powertul grip and Leld them until the handeuffs were put on them, Duck and Ros : entirel nerved and begged to be allowed to s but they were taken right to York. M night all the personal property of Ditck was 8:'..‘;‘}{““' on o wortgage held by the Exchange 3 Spreading the Order. Senvyrer, Neb., Oct, 25, pecial to the el ]—A lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen was organized in our ¢ last nightby P, P. Ellis, grand lecture fwenty charter members drawn from among our best citizens, The list of officers Is as ~fallows: J. 8. Johnston, P, M. W.: Prof, W. F. Buck, M. W.; W, €. VanGundy, foreman; J. 8. Fosmier, o eer; B, C, Ward, record” er; . J. Padden, financier; MeCarkle, ceivers Asher Beale, guide; W, A, M L W.i J. F. Davis, 0. W.; truste caker, Johu Bruce and M. eman 3 * medical examiners, Drs. . W." Mitehel and . F. Bradshaw. The lodge will meet on londay night of each week and invites visit- ng brethren from Guide Rock, Chester, aidy, Edgar and elsewhere. A grand lodge {mlm state of Nebraska will soon be organ- A Railroad Boom at Grand Island. GRAND ISLAND, Oct. 25.—[Speclal to the + Bre.)—The new B. & M. scheme, the Grand Island & Wyoming Central, which was in corporated at Lincoln a fow days ago, 15 ma- terializing. The purchase of the right-of. way forthe new road to the northwest has already been begun, 8. M. Bennett, owning the first seetfon of land Joining the city lim- ts, has already received payment for the and wanted by the new ralltoad, and other payments to other parties will follow at once. Lirulll“fllmuln'rn\u\i Jubilant, ‘That this is estined to become an huportant railroad center there is no longer any doubt, Real estate quotations are consequently having an upward tendency. “I'he luaber werchants are laying in big stocks owing to the ryeduction of lumber Tutes to this point three cents per hundred pounds. —— Buspected of Murder, BrooaNatox, Neb,, Oct. 25.—[Speclal to the Bee, )1t s believed by many here that Frank Whitney, alias Walker, murdered bis wife In the woods south of here. He came 1o this country about a year ago with th Rose-Duck outfit. * Soon “after e marri Gussie Durant, J.B.Duck making an affidavit that Whitney was unmarried. e has re- cently absconded and Gussie applies for a _divoree, Clreumstances connected with his wife's disappearance are very suspicious. Detectives Liave been at work on the case for @ year, e Another Young Man Gone Wrong. BroominGToN, Neb., Oct. 25— [Specia) to the Bek. }—Quite ‘o seusation wis created Dere yastexduy by the nows that Reno Mont- | Bke.] = Deputy United States Marshal | vesterday THE OMAHA DALy BEE gomershad absconded, It 1s cald that he has stolen quite a sum of money. It is also ted that he commiltted two o three for. nd child without o dol- ed from Cani- running a It n wite merly T in the tates Iand oftice at Bloomington, Gone to the Wall. RED Crotn, Neb., Oct. Special to the Allen ( the stock of the Greal Wests ern Implement company, of this elty, with branches at MeCook, Oberlin, Riverton, and other points, The fevy wae made on attach- ments issued ta the Morri<on Manufacturing company, of Fort Madison, lo and the Caldwell'Wagon company, of Leavenworth, nsas. Their liabilities are about §15,0003 nssets, $120,000, A Ticket to Scoop. Sceyvren, Neb., Oct, 25,—([Special to the ek | —The Colfax county degnocratic con vention was held yesterday, and nominated ket Brown: clerk, A. M. Par- Joseph Sichert: fudge, Joseph superintendent, W, 'T. Price: com- ‘ted., Barnholats' sirveyor, J. S. oner, Lambert Folda, missiond Howell; A Clergyman Dies Suddenly. Nontit PLATTe, Neb.—Oct. 95.—[Speci to the Bre.]—Rev, Dr. Johin MeNamara, w known throughout the state, died snddenly yesterday afternoon [ro stroke of paraly. sis Although he had been ailing for some time his deatli was unexpeeted, and 18 a scyere blow to the community. Iis many good lities hid endeared hifn to the residents of b “rlln Platte, where his loss will be deeply elt, A Shooting Scrape at Sidney, IDNEY, Oct, ~[Special to the Brp.)— an Dietrick, who was shot in the left arm and side by the bar-tender in Harry Winter's saloon, is in a dangerous condition, and his wounds may prove fatal. Tis assailant is under arrest. Dietrick was drunk and rais- ing a disturbance in the saloon when he was shot by the b eper, at whom he attempted to throw a spittoon, Setggeir A Double Barn-Burning at Kearney. . Y, Neb., Oct. —[Special to the lessuess on the part of the son of St. Johm, Saturday, burned the barn of ther, together w that of James Jen- kins, to the ground, ‘Ihe loss will awmount to F300, A One Year Sentence. Coruanus, Neb., Oct. 25— [Special to the Bre.)—Yester Judge Post sentenced Her- man Henry, a 5, to the peniten- tiary for one year. He was convicted of shooting with intent to kill. - WASHINGTON WAIFS, The Department Tackled by the Warring Telephone Companies. WARIINGTON, Oct. 25.—Three petitions have been presented to the department of Justice asking that suits in equity be brought to vacate the Bell patents now owned by the American Bell telephone company. Two of these petitions were presented by the Globe telephone company, and the other by the Washington ~ telephone com The department of © justico has r ferred the petitions with accompanying apers to the departanent of the interior for report, advice and recommendation of the secretary of the interior.” The sceretary of the Interfor In turn has referred each to the commissioner of P:\U'nls for his “report and opinion.” Mr. Montgonmery hag not re- ported to the seeretary of the interior, but has submitted m o brief summary of each case, Be 4|r¥ Lamar directs and will order ~that Inasmuch as his advice, opinfon and _recommendation are invited he will ask all Interested parties to uppear before him_and the commlssioner of patents, exhibit all facts and answer the following questions: 1—Has the government a right to institute such a suit for such a pur- 105 2—If it has do the facts as they shall e presented warrant @ demand that such a suit be brought? All proceedings will be had publicly, The Embryo Navy. WASIINGTON, Oct. 24.—The report of the navy board, constituted by order of Secre- tary Whitney to examine the work and ma- terials of the unfinished cruisers, Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, and to ascertain a fair market value thereof, including n reasonable margin of profit upon the work, has heen approved by the secretary, and sent by him to the naval advisory board, which latter has n ordered to go “on with the work, The rd of apprafsal, in its general Teport upon three vessels eays that materials and workmanship, as far as can be seen at this stuge of the work, are good and answer the requirements of the contracts, and consider: that by expending the money which the board estimates as necessary to make the vessels complete and up to the contract, that it will have at that time vessels up in cliaracter and quality to contract requivements. e Fred Douglass Must Go. New Youx, Oct. 24.—[Special to the Bee.] A Philadelphia dispatch tothe New York World says: Robert Purvis, who was asso- clated with the anti-slavery workers,returned to-day from a visit to the president, made to secure the dismissal of Fred Douglass as re: corder of deeds for the District of Columbla, He said Douglas must o, Heis an offensive partisan, who made fiery speeches for Blaine before election, and is now trying to curry favor with Cleveland. The president listened to mo eagerly, and took the papers I had. e said if a colored man of Ruitable attainme ould be found, he need not bea democra cause colored demoerats are few, but it independent In politics he would appoint him, [told the president that this was a olden opportunity for the administration to Wwin a colored maun, A Unique Necklace. NEW Yori, Oct Special to tho B A decidedly unique necklace is now In the hands of Tiffany & Co.’s workmen, Itis to be made up of @ collection of mummy eyes brought from Peru by W. E. Curtis, of the South American commission, Curtis writes that local antiquaries from whom the eyes were purchased believed they belonged to a species of cuttlefish formerly common on the Peruvian coast. Prof. Ramondl, a nati cthnologist, maintains that they are really human eyes. Since the eyes have heen this country they have bean examined by entlemen connected with the Smithsoniai nstitution and they agree that they are erys- taline lens of theé eye of the euttlefish, or squid. “The lenses vary from one-tifth to en-tenths of an Inch in” diwmeter, considera- bly larger than the lens of the human eye, It Is” said the work of polishing the s has been interrupted by the (lness of several lap- Idaries, attributed fo the poisons used in pro- serving the eyes, Ll Bloody Work of Moonshiners. New York, Oct. 24.—[Special to the BeE.) —A Jessup, Ga., dispatch says: William Clemmens, of McVille, the newly appointed revenue officer, went to Montgomery county yesterday, with fwo assistants to eapture an illielt still, While passing along a lonely part of the road, the thiee men weze fired upon by wmoonshiners, and Clemwens and one of his companions were killed, Officer Rose, the hird of the party, escaped with a bad wound in the side and his coat riddied with bullets, Great excitement prevails and o battle be- tween moonshiners and a posse of citizens is expected, The President's Contribution. NEW Yous, Oct, 34.—[Speoial 1o the BEE.) ~Col. Lamont handed $1,000 to the dem eratic state committee yesterday s a contri butien of the nwlden{ shad OMAHA, MONDAY MORNT THE TESTIMONY OF TREASON, Filley Unfolds His Knowledge of the Con- troverted Question, A CONSPIRACY OF STATESMEN, Chapters 6f Opinion Contributed by Senator Arkell and Vice-Presi- denu Hendricks of Op- posite Characters, Filley Fires a Volley. S1. Loty Oct. 2, [Special to the Bri.j ~The fact came to the knowledge of your correspondent to-day that Chauncey L Filley, a life-Jong republican, who has stood high in the councils of the party-—state and national was posseesed of facts, which put in print, would prove a most interesting contribution {0 the controversy concerning the relations of Johnson and Grant. Accordingly Filley was sought and requested to tell his story- He reluctantly consented and proceeded with a statement of which the substance is here given Filley and Montgomery Blair, attorney gen- eral under Lincoln, were most intimate friends, and it was by Blair that Filley was placed in- possession of the details of this most interesting serap of seeret and unwrit- ten history of the nation, Johmson and Bi were close frien®s. After Johnson was innugurated president, he made Blair's house in Washington his home, and Blair tain extent a confidential ad Before Lincoln was assassinated the republican pi was split, Ben Wade, Sal mon P. Chase and Willimn H. Seward lead ing that portion of the party desirous of en- foreing the most radical measures, When Lincoln was killed and Johnson became president, these men sought control of John- son, but soon discovered that Lincoln’s pol- icy was to be followed out by his suecessor, Then they determined to get rid ofhim. An elaborate seheme planned, the details of which were all known to Johnson. The plot was to prove Jolmson unfit through the excessive use of liquor and » the functions of his office. nd manufactured o mass of evidence, beginning with sworn testinony to prove Johnson drunk when inaugurated and hat he had no ide ath of offiee n § ber of acts of the Blair and the pre avare of what was going on, the procress of the the schemers had so far sw thai it only remained to rrest, Jolnson decided to send for ¢ L \erman. The president was_afraid of ut, the gencral of the army. He thought ntaspired to a dietatorship, and in a con- ion with Blair, pointed to the fact that n had been sent as far from the capl 1t was decided then to send 0ld Tecumseh, which was done, and when Sherman arri the surprise of Grant was at. The president proceeded ve utious- He nlhl not tell Sherman all’ the facts. spoke to him_of & conspiracy, but said_he was going to send Grant to 3 , and desired to have Sherman at Washitigton, The rest is told in recent pub- lications. Sherman told the president Grant would not go to Mexico, and volunteered him- self. Johnson let each of the plotters know in a quiet but unmistakable way that he wa fully posted as to their schemes and they abandoned the idea of wrresting the president, and their plans took shape later in the im- seachment proceedings. This sending for General Sherman by fhie president_apprised Grant that he was suspected and_ distrusted by the president, and it w not long before even a pretense of friendship was abandoned by the president and the head of the ary, and then followed correspondence between i h is now finding its way pr ald Fi s the story tolil fifteen years ago by Montgomery Blair, possible. A Contribution From Arkell. NEw YoRrg, Oct 24.—[Special to the ~In an interview in the Tribune tor Arkell, referring to Depew’s letter on Grant’s connection with the proposed plans of President Johnson, recalls a_conversation he had with Grant just before his death, “Af- ter reading a book called the ‘Downfall of the Republic,” says Arkell, “Grant said: ‘T have been called as commander of the army to conclude the suppression of the rebellion, and have been the personal meansof prevent- g a subsequent eivil war, menacing and dangerous, yetof which little T know, venerable financler, wio used to be well known in Wall street, and who w oughly informed in_political watters, Iuding to this expression of Gen, Grand,which physicians who reported it, attributed to possible mental wandering’ from_physi weakness, said: “Iremember the time well. ‘The rawor struck the street that sone por- tentous disturbance was brewing in Wash- ington. Government securities dropped ter- rlmi' from some unknown cause, 'I'he cause of (he depression was found to have originat- «d in Baltimore, Subscquently it was ascer- talned to have been based on information procured by Bob Johnson, the president’s private secretary, who had surreptitiously copied and sold portions of a draf of an in- tended proclamation, in which the president proposed to declare congress adjourned and demanded full representation for the seceded states as the only constitutional body he would recognize. ~ ‘This corroborates,” says Axkell, “or perhaps rather amplities, Depew's reeent statement. It shows how much fusger than we know is the debt we owe the silent horo, who stood between the wild and infat- nated ambition of a weak but stubborn man and a great national calamity.” Hendrick's Hoodoos the Charge. INDIANATOLIS, Ind., Oct. e News yesterday contained an interview with Vice President Hendricks about the story put in circulation by Chauncey M. Depew about President Johnson's contemplated congress to he composed of rebel sympa- thizers entirely, “This story won't do,” said Hendri ‘and publi_ opinion will not sustain any such charges made twenty years after the alleged events happened, and after all the persons who were dircetly connected with them are dead. Personally, I know nothing of Mr. Johnson's opinions or inten- tions, further than the information {that came to me in the position I held. I was in the United States senate, and I both spoke and voted against the impeachment of Jolin- son. While I never had any conversation with him_ on the subject referred to by Depew, Tam sure that Johnson had no sitch intention, He believed in restoring aud not reconstructing the states, and that the 1 government had no right to change or ate their constitut 1 think Mr, Lincoln held this view also. [ have no doubt that Johuson wanted Stanton removed, but it was on personal grounds, for they were not good friends. Ieannot believe he had any such purpose as that attributed to him, and 1 never heard it charged before the last few days, Itis not ) important olitical matter should have remained silent twenty years, I have read the various sents 1 the papers and am inclined to the greatest ciedence to that of Judye ling, of Greentield, whose recollection about sieh matters 15 always aceurate, and who was then in a position to know what President Johnson intended w do,” [N —— uneral of Josh Billings. ox, Mass., Oct. 25.—The funerat of y W. Shaw (Josh Billlngs) took place at Landsboro,his native town, yesterday, The services were lavgely attendes i made publ BEYOND THE SEA. The Bulgarvian Affair—A View of the olitieal Sitaation. Loxnox, Oct. ¢ [Special to the Brr.|— England has consented 10 enfer the Constan- tinople confor s oucht to mean Lord Salishury has obtained some guarantee that the Russlan programune shall not be carried out, but no assurance oft this point has boen The change in the situation since last week is remarkable. Russia has got round the porte, shaken its intention to and convinced that the restoration of the status Al only prevent an unknown meas- ureof complications, Germany is putting on the nsual pressure, and Avstria, as usnal, gives way. Russian diplomacy looks like winning along the line. Prince Alexan- der will be discredited, if not removed; h must resume his vassalship to Russia, Lond Salisbury, if he allows Bulgaria to be divided, will make a desperate ¢ Prince Alexander, in whose behalf the queen isdoing all she ean. Lord Salisbury knows, morcover, that handing over Roume- lin again to Turkey must have a damaging effect on the English elections, he electoral contest continues amid the confusion which has hitherto prev Gladstone’s two attempts to larmonize the contending seetions of the Jiberal party have failed, 'The manifesto that was intended to provide a platt wehich everybody mixht stand has only served to mark tie extent of radical incurslons before its four corners, Chamberlain’s summnons to Hawarde n silted in an ineffectual compromise, T duel between the liberls and radicals s in the presence of wnq ed public T'he truth is the libe confident’ in viet indulge in factions di punity. The radicals seein Anxious to obtain ascen: party than that of the tories, cerfiig, indeed, has been of s ch er since Lord Sali spoke until andolph Churchill entered the field, But Lord Salisbury and Lord Randoiph Churehill alike silent on one question which the English public want answered “What are they going to do about Ireland?”’ Yesterday's eabinet meeting is believ d to have resolved to continue to do nothing. Lord Randolph Churehill’s will, as usual, Is, and le regards the alliance with 11 4s the sole hope of preventing a re als to power. ed and s are much more in the liberal Tory eleetion- the dullest Nobody in England troubles the accuracy o elyan’s description of the eondit of Ireiand. In most parts of the island no rent whatever is paid, “boyeotting is verilent and almost universal, but thie tory eabinet, as Englishmen think, 5 i ion of law anc han lose the nell’s support. has to chiooss tends tow J nelt and the polie embodies a seri- ous menace to the e organizations of socie Both may be avoided If moderate men regain control of both parties, but ex- treme men at this momenl are most influen- tial in both, LoND: the parli without se Hm!y feeling is Vv grows more bitter, Lorne, liberal candidal when at Brenford, seve don, delivered a speec the eleetors a mob assanlted him with rotten cggs, and some of them gaining the platform smashed his hat over his head. The sup- porters of the marquis rushed to his rescue and a fight ensued, Lorne then became thoroughly frightened and lastily departed . from the seene, ran through the streets in a_drenching rain to the railway station and immediately de- parted for Londo) Meanwhile the row tinued, and_thy pportrs of the marg ed, dnd discourngee leser ir champion, retrea leaving their ' masters of the field. The Iatter then seized the platform and passed a_resolution condenmning the liberal wolicy. When the queen’s son-in-law made s appearance as a liberal candidate for Hawmpstead, it occasioned considerable sur- I and when in his address Le advanced v:\llupinlons, the surprise was greatly sed. ‘The marquis advoeated fimuediate dises- tablishment in Scotland. He championed the priveiples of the free land league, and with a view to the encouragement of sub- division of land, sugge: that the 25 of large estates en bloe jeet to heavy taxation, while sales of Tand to be di- vided into should be left duty cension of locil , and infusi elected members, chances of It is now evident that mpaign will not pass off ting in many quart a8 ready Tunning high The Marqui for Hampstead, miles west of Lon- While addressing {nto the house of lords An Appeal by the Loyalists. DunLis, Oct. Thie Patriotic Union has Issned o long manifesta denouncing the Trish national league for having for five years imbittered Trish home life, coerced individ- ual liberty, extorted hard earned money from the peoplo and permitted thie perpetration of outrages, ‘The Union appeals to the people to assert their independence. of the league and mainti ity of the empire, The manifesto calls” for electors o vote against the tyrauny of Parnell and the 1eagues of petiy leadersy l.....m-..]u farmers and idle loungers, who form the league, wnd intunidate the country, nen., s refuse to The Boycotting Cactl Conk, Oct, 25.—English shipy assist the cattle men here in their efforts to boycott the Cork packet company. The ¢ ered a Danish steamer to tle to England. sl | Ll Coal Cars in a Heap. SyrAacusk, N, Y, Oeot. & while a coal train was aseending a heavy grade on the Llin Cortland & Northern railroad, near Freeville, the coupling pin of one of the cars brokeand the train dashed k down the hill at the rate of forty miles an hour, striking another coal train follow- ing twenty minutes behind. The locomo tive and ten cars of the second train were siled up in a_heap, and Engineer Brown aud s feman were tun over and instantly kill- e, Comduclor Rogers Was 8o terribly i jured thathe will dle. A brakeman 1 Judd has notbeen found and Iy suppo be under the wreck, which is being e from the track. ST o 108 An Trish Mass Meeting. VN Y., Oct, 93,—Mrx, Parnell ad- a mass meeting at Leland opera to-night. Addresses were also by serveral of the Jocal cler Resolutions § ooyl Wik the reland and “admisation for M unanimously passed.. A sub $2.500 was raised by the | audie Ixish representatives to parli convey their dre house delivered Catholie sin of The Weather, NGTON, Oct. 25,—Upper Mississippi Fair weather; slightly colder in northern portions; stationary temp ure in southern portions; wvariable, W 3 slightly i portlon stationary te- perature in southern portions; variable, pro- ceded by northerly wl s, v in northes .~ Mayor Grace Will Vote. NEW Youk, Oct. 24—[Special to the BEE.) —Mayor Grace registered yesterday for the first time and if he votes on Novewber Srd it will be bis first vote, 1is naturalization ispers wore e Noveuber 2id, 150, witer b5 nomination for mayor. e ST $The Cleaving House Record. Bostox, Oct, %.—Leading clearing houses of the United Staies yeport that the tota clearances for the, week endlog 8 Oclober 24 wero $1,111,017,68, an i1 S22 compared with the gorrespond! Tast year, NG, OCTOBER éu, 1885, A STRIKING STIR 1N STOCKS. A Wonderful Week's Business Done on the Exchange, READING'S REMARKABLE RISE. A Profitable Bull Movoment—Satur- day's Grain and Oattle Report from Chicago- Continued Dullness the Rule, The Week on the Stock Exchange. NEW York, Oct. 25.—{Special to the By The New York stock exchange sel- dom had a luger week's business than in the one just ended. One of the objects of the bull campaign s certainly ac- complished. The public is in the market to a greater extent than at any time during the past three years. It ouly required enconr- agement to bring them in. The bull combi- nation counted on this and laid their plans, 1t is adtogether probable that the engineers of the movement unloaded thelr stocks and se- cured their profits in the early part of the week, Many experienced operators looked for an inevitable reaction on Wednesday last. In this they were disappointed. Even the threatened danger to the new trunk line pool by the Baltimore & Ohio’s refusal to sign the passenger business agrecment failed more than to depress the market a little, Publia buying supported the market, and prices closed at an advance over last week. In the present speculative temper of the pub- lic a farther advance is casily possible. But when the public get throngh buying there will be a pretly lively slump. The fall in prices will then only be measured by the de- ree of eagerness on” the publie’s part to get out, and the extent to which the new short in- terest b i formed togive the market sup- port by buying when the frightened public begins to throw its holdings overboard The speculative furore 15 always w ut this one is more than usual Reading was rezarded as practionlly ndsod at the lowest recordeil closure and AN assessment equ Bi red ine v - and up it At the SAME e rumors wes derbilt was buying the stock with a completing his control, or that the P vania was buying with the s joc 1ooks now very much as if some one had mar- keted alot of ‘stocks, and_people were not wull(lu%’ who say Vanderbilt got rid in this way of Ins Reading holdings, The senseless- ness of the movement in the stock way be shown by the fact that there is an issue of Keading bonds superior in lien to the st which 2 ling ut & lower figure than the stoek itselt Another striking illustr: cal nature o tho sy closed at $1,02! dividends magniticent ri per annum will hardly the road wi cent on the stock. pany’s debenture promise to pay cent per annui, are sell; 21¢ per t above the st The telegraph situation is v The Gould party and inside: n of the same reent, or 2 per cent 10st extravagant hull [ ome time to come yable to earn more than b per Nevertheless the con- which are s hearizhly on the property, and fied with the fortunes of the Ohio think Western Union not such & bad property after all. It would not be su prising” ii' there was a deal concealed some- where, S Chicago Grain Market. CRHICAGO, Oct. 24.—(Special to the Bre,]— Wirear—The market closed weak at the lowest prices current during the month of Qctober, and b'e lower for the leading options than at the close one week ago, The market opened steady with good buying, under which Decomber advinced to 8 and remained steady at that figure for the first hour, Several estimates werethen madeas to the probable increase which would be shown in the next visible supply report, one stimating that the increase would be 000,000 bushels, ‘Lhis produced an eling of weak i to the close of the session offering very large, under which the price for December deeline and elosed on- the latest i Wie against 92¢ one week sure to sell was very sharn th entire session, and the almost steady with very few 1 Receipts show @ ling ofy exeept northwestern points, but were reporied Jarge in Minueapolis. In =pite of the large amivals at the 18 1t was Teported that willers weed {hieir bids, for wheat, ned a temporary eling of firmness but it stayed thie vard _course of in pri nd prices rly w wal to- A the close and the market closed general- shadc lower. As—Oats iled firm owing to light re- xzood shipping dennd, and the s were generally well up {o- those of yi Prov sioNs—Proylsions were weaker, and both pork and lud elosed fractionally lower, Chicago Live Stock M et Ciicaco, Oct., 25.—(Special to the By, |— CAyT) teceipts to- ght cars of stock, less than 200 Liead, the smallest number ceived sinee the snow blockade last winter, iere was not suflicient business to make a market. The stale cattle left last nicht were not wanted; drescod 1 operators had ¢ hand about all they needed and orders were light. Tesans and rang out of the panie with tives, Shipping stecrs, 1 5,501 1200 10 1504 100 1bs, Western slow @3,10 4 i slow; natives and laif-breeds, YUIRETS A no sales t Hous—T \ a8 compared with th . “Ordinary run of & sorts Kol at 3,70, rotgh and common oddsand ends o0, and best heavy at 8,70 Packing and shipping, 20 to 500" by, ik, TNt welkhis: 150 t0 130 Jbs, i3 180 10 210 [bs, $3,4008.00, - A Ten-Penn Prressung, Pa, Oct. 25,—For the first time Intwenty years theve is o famine in nails, e result of the long strike of the nailers, Prices have advanced to 8310 on assorted gualities, and even at these figures itls imp sible 10 get them. A fow small lots that andled by Pittsburg dealers are od here from Williamsburg and New- L P, Within the List week it has been {mpossible (o get wore than from t to uity keg lots from the Wheeling o market was active and prices hers Scared Away, A dispatch from Intending Lyn GarLvesToN, Oct, 25, Denison (o the News 5 an attempt was made at an early howr this moruning to Jynch Grimes, a colored man Was ar- vested yesterday eharged with ussaulting two little girls, The jailer frightencd the mnsked sitors away by Arlug a pistol several e It is believed another atfempt will be i to-night, Both ehildren claim Lo ide Grimes, e Not Murdered as Reported, EL PAso, Tes., Oct. 25,~The report of the wmurder of Conduetor Samuel Dunbar, of the Mexican Central railrowul, by Apaches, while xospocttng in the Abinal distrief ‘ ves W e boeh anfounded. He was i the vicinl- 1y of the hostiles but evaded thew, who lose of yester- | cnty five | trict, Fanatical Frenchman Opposing the Work of the Health Ofiicers. MoNTREAT, Oct. 25—~The anthorities are meeting with considerable opposition in the work of Isolating smalipox patients. yTo-day a carter named Trepanier ealled a number of his nelghbors to his assistance and together with the mob drove off & posse of sanitary police which had come to remove one of the carter’s children to the hospital. ‘Trepanier will be submitted before the new court which iias boen established for the trial of such cases. At another house to which the officers went for o sinilar purpose & man drew a knife and k(“ll them at bay until he was rea- soned out of his folly, Avarsra, Me, Oct, 25.~Dr, Young, of the &tate board of health, who visited the inspec tion station at Morse river last week, says that o large numly of French dians passing throug! the place not iuspected or vaceinated un! this has recently been done, and that m escape by passing in_ th elit. A n wateh will be employed to stop them and an inspector, g Dr. ‘Thornton is building as r apidly as pos sible n fumigating station where the clothing of emdgrants is to be disinfected 2. —\With e tzes made by Father Cushi ican boys who left St urday, the authorities wi publish a statement signed hy the mayor of St Lanrent, the college physician, a an to the board of health, stating that not been a single smallpox college this year, With fecard to bad food, several of the students from Massachu- been examined and state t he 1 that could be desired, QuEnec, Oct. ‘Thi ming in all the protestant and Catholic churchesaletter from the corporation board of health was read, calling upon the members of the difterent congrezations to be closed at once. Tonroxto, Oct, 2,—~The first death from lpox in this ity oceurred to-day. 1 1t is supposed he canaht {he dises his fathey, who had been unpacking tgloves from Montreal. —_— THE END 18 John McCullough's Case Growing More Hopelews. New Yonk, Oct. 25.—[Special to the Brr.] nee John McCullough was rewoved to Bloomingdale his condition has been gradu- ally growing more and more Lopeless, Physically he is not g0 weak as generally supposed, but wmereifolly unconseious of s condition, During the past week a sisterand some friends determined to yemove him to his own home and wife's in Philadel- pitia. - He will be taken fo-morrow to Phila delp What John needs now is a ho=pital rather than an asylum. At home he will have even more tender care than where he is now. I was s\ivrrlsml when I saw him to-day to find how litile outward ehangs there has been in him. One of the physicians_in whose care Me- b has been at Bloomingdale, siid: “Tdo not think any danger, citier physicai or mental, will be apprehiended trom the i i1e is strong enough to set up u twice & duy. 1 think, however, the end is not far DYNAMITE DEEDS. vo Attempts to Wreck Street Cars by the St. Louis Strikers. 87, Louts, Oct. 25,—Another sensation was produced in street railway cireles to-night. While a car was coming down from north St, Louls on the Bellefontaine line, it ran over some object on the track on Fourteenth, be- tween Bremen and Farren streets which ex” ploded with a loud report and shatlered one of the front wheelsof the car aud otherwise injured it. From the effcets of explosion on the track and the gronnd tics, it 15 supposed the explosive was dy Only one. pas- senger was in the eir, and the drive were thrown to oor but neither were in- j 1. cet railway t luckily s. 1t oc- r the cifie rail- ke one of mt wheels of t did no other Several pe in the car, ide from the fainting off of onc or two no_one was hurt. The street car o had @ parade to-day and held i sceret 1 to-night, the result of which has not yet transpired. the { damn but g ladies, New Yous, Oc “The Her following from Toledo: “N. brother-in-law of President Cleveland, cently returned from a visit to the chief ex- ceutive at Washington. The prosident, 5, is not ntall_disturhed by the tesull the clections Ohio. Hera believed all along that Foraier would be spublican state. He did, he oerutic Ieglslature, aid sinted to find that one wi What does he think of New )y not elect York? mfident that he s of the opin lle rt will be elected. He is ol e for Hill, and wonld like 1o se it doe not think he will be” nunber of democrats friendly who hold the sumv opinior “Don’t the president h less for this state of afairs: e does not i3 1l he ¢ out the oftic SN0, sir will be dors t,l Dimzelf blame- ango his po more gene he will change liis policy, but it 0 wore strictly serutinize “the en- nente, He has been imposed upon in aices and has resolved that a ver vigil examination shall be fate. The democrats wl wore liberal poliey toward them may et over thie notioil, for the people hive got to b wore honest with the president,” hout giving -~ Mexicans Desl 81, Louis, Oct. Demoerat from I of private property ownfng Mexi favor of annexation to the Unite the northern tier of Mexican state movement has ot bean mdo, press touched the subjeet, but 1l serts that there is @ stfong undercwrent among the clags above named in favor of linking their destiny to that of the great northern republic Annexation, A letter to the Globe- " 5 4 good wong Intellizent and ns in Chiluahua in States of No open las the ¢ as- - S, Lours, Oct, 2 better known, W. 1 Lennox Maxwell, the supposed monrderer of O, Arthur Preller, niet his father, Samuel Brooks, yveswerday in the office of the jail for the fivst time the erime was committed. ‘The elder Brook came from Hyde, England, to be with s son during his trinl, " The father and s protracted talk, after which the £ drew, He atterwards refi tieulur interview, but s Wi i v convineed of his son's TIN0CCCe, i Beater. ntoxicated to- Punishing a W Prreesnrna, Oct, 25,—While night Robert Wiggins attac daughter and was cruell George and Charles Stewat, brot int 1'with & revolver wtil e Chiey then thiew him into the street, where he was found some time later by tié police, Hig injuries are belioved to e fatal, The Slewiarts Lave been arrested, am when s of Mis, Canon Farrar in New York. New Yoni, Oct, Canon prcached in Trintty ehureh to and fashionable congregation, were unable 1o galn adiissior., guished elereyiian preached from- the t 25, Fairar yto a large Hundieds Tho distin o1 Little childsen kevp yousselves fom idoe? | 5 wife and | NUMBER 108 | A CAMPAIGY THAT WILL WIN, Remarkable Republiean Activity in the Hawkeyo State, THE DEMOCRATS HANDICAFPEDy The Part Prohibition is Playing X rle in a Rank Republican State Copperhead ding tor Votes ~S8ome of His Utterances, * The Campaign in Towa. Des Moixes, Ia, Oct 90,~[Special to the Brp.)—It s the common report of speakers on the stump that never before when there was not a presidential election have they seon 80 wueh republican activity and enthosiasm, There is just alittle danger that republicans may be cartied away by overconfidence, and neglect the personal work that must be done to carry the legis lature, for the democrats are making a still hunt with that end in view, In this respect the methods of the two parties! 80 far have been quito unlike. The repnbi cans have made o speaking campaign, having held over five hundred meetings, 'Fhey now have on the stump a large number of somo of the best speakers in the state, assisted by tw three prominent speakers fron othe staes, ‘The demoerat 8, on the coufiary, al not holding halt the number of meetings, an lave not | ‘ol onstituent ryument and cloguence, ocrats to vote their ticket beeiise always done so, and they expect to publfean votes on account of the dis over prohibition and local and fights, S0 in close counties they astill hunt, and they profess an of carrying the legislature. But ¢ vices trom all parts of the state ine their hopes are not well founded, hibition is not cutting such figure I this Ampaign democrats intended it should. The repub) position is simply that the law_ shouit air triad before fts repeal or modin demanded. to prohibitionists who are republi o no more at the pumd e not « T i "This, of course, is s | and the' prohibitioniay < say-that tho party eoul soit. Consequently 5t sufe {0 sy t e republicans who wh ve the party this year for the tirst tine on unt ol prohibition will not number o ne per cent of the republican vote. On th othier hand they will gain largely from th 1l rty, which is essentinily @ There are thousands’ of iy the fusion criey, which earrs 1l of the compulsory io platforn o only greenb prominence on tho stump, are boti o announced as converts to the conpul loon plank, and opposed to prohibitioi theory and practice. This fact severs thei hold on the “gree nbackers, who have bhercto. fore believed them to ‘be sincere probi itionists, whateve iunce they might ke, But the ) J these nen who have been Jifelong prohibitionlsts, now des claring themselves in favor of a lignor law that not even the democrats of {rlnmfl:u would: neeept, s mudo o temperand greenbackers of Towa disgusted with then bevond measure, Itis probable that but littlg an hall the groenback voto of 188§ year be given to the fusion ticket, ate ofli tho democrats huye upall hopes. Lhey find 6 handicapped with their eandidate for gove ernor than they have been for many yeay He has been proven one of the rankesi eo! perhieads in-Iowa, an whose hatred of Zincoln and union soldiers lod him to uttey st brutal sentiments regarding thom. of his substantial utteraic oon #loot d —d old T csnake,” ‘1 hope no soldier south in this abolition war will return VT and others equally ony are now the state and will cost the demoerats a great many votes. Mr. Whiting, the democratic caudidite, seons wiso (o have hlundered inabout ovay act of his pobl life, consequently he and his friends are kep! on the defensiveall the time. A remarkabieg spectacle of the po was the right of him before an audience sreading an m‘hunw 1o try to prove that he was not a copperhe: and raitor during the war. Many dem erats openly express thelr disgust w.th thelr cand nd say that if their leaders didn't than to nominate such & o nent the democr lette, who are BU col who ought t s run far ahead of his party. s bett nformed on state affalrg ther man in lowa. He fon, eareful and favsighted, and Il rectas a candidaie, o thak o hus never been flll?('lhll{ b Althongh prevented by loss of ming a sol 18t rejeoted on an eye from be tavice but was of his disabilit there wi supporter of the government, wil no warmer, friend of the soldier and soldicis familieg than Le, There is little doubt tliat e wilk woll at least five thousand morc votes than 3laine did Jast fall, and his election by s large majority is only a question of tin From fiow until the elose of the cai ight will be pressed with great vigor, iblicans have 10 catise for upcasiness few ‘legislutivo districls, whore fights and Jealousios that may p yposition a umber that they would. not otherwise get, ounty oyak vign, tic Kstunate, Dunvque, Ia., Oct. 2. —The Herala ¢ published réports from e ry county of the state on the politic uation, ‘They indieate that the yepubli in the ‘election on November 5wl have m wovernor and, id: half gl i il bt ween the leg? Inione 0 e | A Democor For Creports ind thifty-saven rep s forty-three. The wee v cause considerable ol all the aboyve indications, Towa's Display at Now Orleans. Towa Crvy, L, Oot. 2 U of the, cars containing the Tow for tha; North, Central and South Amurican_ exhibj] tion af New Orvicans,lofv yesterday. Comm i 1, who lins “Eeen seriously ill fo L will leaye t it for 1)i6 expo- nt (o Now Ore ther with the old oxs' owa's dis) J Beware of Scrofula Sorofula Is prohably more general than any other disease. It is insidious in eharacter, and manffests iLsclE in runuing sores, pustular eruptlo olls, swellings, enlarged jolnts, abscosses, s0re eyes, ete, Hood's Barsaparitia expels all traco of scrofula from the blood, leaving it pure, cariched, and healthy, a1 crely afflieted with serofu Ing sores ony les Hood's Sarsapari cwred.” €. E. Lovegoy, Lowell, Mase, C. A, Arnold, Arnold, Me., bad scrofulous sven years, spring and fall. Lood's saparilla cured bim, Salt Rheum Ts one of the most disagreeable diseases caused e blood, 1t fs readily eured by Hood's arilla, the great blood purifier, Nam Sples, Elyria, 0., suflered greatly from erysipelas and salt rhoum, cavsed by handliug tobacco, At times his hands would ack open and bleed, He tried various prep- arations without aid; flually took Hood's Har- saparilla, and now sa; am entirely weil “Aly son had salt heuns on his hands and on the calves of bis legs, Mo tood liood's Sarsaprilla aud 18 entirely cured” 4, B, Stauton, Mt, Vernon, Ohlo, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all drogglets, §1; elx for g3, Made ouly by 0. X HOOD & CO., Apathecaries, Lowell, Masm 100 Doses One Dollar |