New York Times, The (Newspaper) - January 6, 1882, New York, New York VOL 9464 NEW-YORK FRIDAY JANUARY 6 1882 PRICE FOUR CENTS THE DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS TAKING A TO SETTLE THEIR QUARREL AN Of THE TUESDAY FOR DELAY TO DEMOCRATS ALBANY Jan soon as tho decided to adjourn until Tuesday evening the members of both houses turned their faces homeward and tonight only the local statesman aro in town now bo- the scene ot operations and any ing up of relations between Tammany and the regular Democrats before next Tuesday will have to be done in that City Tho only basis of settlement that is talked of to-day 09 being possible is ono which would re tiro Jacobs from the field give Tammany the organization of tho Benato and the lars that of tae House Of such an arrangement would require the consent of that Senator It is by no means that ho will withhold it A nod from for instance would settle It and it vraa even rumored around tho dors that tho Boss was already figuring ont some clan for an adroit retro at of his favorite Senator Tho Republicans put themselves on record in House to-day in opposition to nny watte of time and money In tho effort to organize They realize that a number of important measures requiring Legislative and they nro anxious to begin work at Tho responsibility for delay falls upon tho Democrats where it rightfully belongs and tho spectacle of two factions of that party wrangling over tho spoils of now becomes prominently presented Tho proceedings IH the Assembly wore DV nn attempt on the part of Mr phy of to call tho table the concurrent resolution sent down by tbo ate filing tho adjournment ot the ture until next Tuesday night A call of tho roll was insisted upon however by Alvord Some time was occupied in this for tho Democrats fearful of some snare had tho absentees called several times and satisfied themselves that their wore nil accounted for Seven and sis Democrats were In a number of Instances they had paired off Thero was no chance of the Republicans cap- turing tbe organization of the imd the Democrats breathed easier Senators Lansing and Pitts as a committee to inform tho House that tho Senate was organized un i ready to transact business Mr Murphy repeated his to take up tho concurrent resolution Jlr Charles S Baker ot Monroe caught Clork Johnson's eye and secured the Ho moved that ono veto bo taken for Speaker urging that several days had already and no sign having given by tho majority as to Its intentions It was now in order to find out what those wore Jlr of Kings im- mediately moved to table tho motion and called for tho veas and nays 1 rise to n point of order interrupted vord tbo House can't have tho yeas and nays because wo aro acting under no rules An attempt was made yesterday to adopt tho rules of the old Assembly but it was defeated by the very men who now Dnd it to have some form of government Tho was overruled however and a ay 5 were ordered A strict party voto was the result tbo til voting yen and tho 54 Republicans in tho Jlr Murphy clamored for the adoption of tbo con- current resolution That makes tho question Mr Alvord I now to say that wo aro ready to on tho work of organization Wo want it understood by tho people of this State that tho cans have put no In tho way of such a step We have determined to put ourselves on record in this matter and wo have done it I would like to said Mr Brown of Otsego if tho gentleman remembers when ho was prominent in causing a delay in the selection of at a considerable cost to the State f I that when I was once ed in tho Speakership there wore only 10 in this House there aro a great many more than that was Mr Alvord's ready provoking tho of the House reference to the days uf when the captured 8 of the 10 and with grated en tho feelings of Brooks who was tho Know-nothing candidate for Governor at that period and ho roso to re- Inasmuch as tho daga he said was conspicuous in prolonging tbo session last year during tho Senatorial contest lie thought it in bad tasto for him to refer to the matter of organization as ho bod Nobody regretted the present delay mure than he did In his judgment it was duo to tho people to secure with dignity a prompt organization Ho had no accusation to make any body and no criticism to offer of uny man's course Ho acquitted himself nil responsibility in the matter and ho ted also tho party to which ho belonged Ho hoped that an organization would bo early in tho coming week and be therefore approved of tho concurrent tion being adopted Having had tho opportunity of ourselves fairly and squarely upon tho record in this matter I am not desirous of opposing tho said Oov Alvord Tho lution wus then adopted steps were taken toward an organization In the session of tho Senate held to-day and after transacting routine business an ad- was had Tuesday next at 8 P M Tho annual reports of tho Hndson lUver State Asylum for tho Insane tho State Homo at Bath and Commissioner in Lunacy wero and ordered printed Mr Mackin introduced a incorporating Frankliu Loan and Trust Company of the City of New-York Among the Incorporators are Mayor Grace Conrad N Jordan Charles J Canda H W Curtiss Joseph L John L Nesbitt and W S Valentine Mr Browning introduced n appropriating i to make up a in tho funds at the disposal of tho Commissioners of tion In offering the Mr Browning said there was only about left in tbo ury of the commission and unless it was re- by Fob I the commission would have to close up institution on Ward's Island The companies ho said bad refused to pay the tax of per bead oo Immigrants Imposed by a law of the last claiming It is illegal and owing Co the large immigration the appropriation of lust year was nearly exhausted He asked that the printed and referred to tho Committee of tho Whole This request required unanimous consent aud Mr McCarthy objected He had no ob- to printing tho ho said bat be objected to its going to the of tho In the first instance Tho Democratic had n majority in the Senate and they wero responsible for whatever delay might occur in legislation This was no more important than many others that would be brought before tho and he objected to Its being pushed forward in an irregular way 1 ho was ordered printed Mr Jacobs offered a resolution for an amendment to the Constitution abolishing all tolls on the Erie It is the samo as tho re-solution passed lost Winter and If it passes this it can be submitted to the for ratification at the election next Fall to the opinion of the Senators from that country districts the amendment will be by a largo majority 11 U G White Secretary of the Utica Executive Committee has to the of tfco Democratic caucus committees that tbe Utica committee will be Kind to hold a conference with the cus committees anywhere and at any which may be suggested NOTES STATE CAPITAL Jun annual report of the New-York State Soldiers and Bailors Homo at Bath for tbe year ending Sept 30 to the Sonata to-do v The total number of Inmates was 003 of whom 410 ore still therein The completion of the hospital will provide for 100 inmates Tbe average number of inmates was 551 The cost of the ration was 20 cents The cost of clothing 0 cents and 30 mills and the total propriation last yoar was An of is asked for this year Tho report of State Treasarer Wendell sub- mitted in the Senate to-day shows a balance in the Treasury Oct 1.1880 of 34 receipts during tho year ending Sopt 30 1881 42 total 70 ments during the fiscal year ending Sept 30 balance in Treasury Qct 1 1881 67 At a meeting of the Commissioners of tho Lund Office Controller Davenport of- a resolution which waa adopted that in the condemnation and of lands under water for railroad purposes belonging to the people of this State tho Attorney-General should tako such steps as mav bo necessary to obtain an upon tho full face value of the lands taken independent of nominal sum usually charged by tho in case of grants to riparian owners nnd that tho Controller or Treasurer be re- quested not to accept in case of an appraisal of lands under wator belonging to the State by by tho court the amount so appraised without tho approval of tho board Mr Edward C Donnelly of New-York has placed his resignation as Commissioner of tho State Board uf Charities in the hands of the Governor R W Peckham counsel for sions has given notice of a motion to transfer the trial of Mr Sessions from the Court of sions to the Court of Over and The Mutual Benefit Lifo Company of ford Conn has been given notice bjr tendent that bo cannot recognize its transact business in until it makes a deposit of and complies with the general Insurance laws The company has bson Issuing policies aa a or company although advertising a capital stock of The last report of the Connecticut Insurance Commissioner shows the assets to be only 71 The agents found canvassing for tho company hereafter in New-York will bo duly prosecuted for violation of law REFORM IH PHILADELPHIA A TO TO COR- RECT ABUSES PHILADELPHIA Jan movement to re- organize tho departments of tho Government of this city wax started at a private meeting of zens at the of John C this afternoon A number of leading citizens attended and a organization was effected by making Mr Chairman and A P Secretary Tho Chairman stated the objects of tbo association to bo tho concentration of the responsibility tbe various city de- tho abolition of some of tbo ent offices nnd A reform in the system of ing accounts Mr laid ho bad been In with many of thu bankers of delphia ai well tbe various railroad officers and he had found no opposition to tbe movement although was some of opinion re- tbo manner of making a change in the of the ally departments After some dis- cussion It was decided to adopt tho mado by tbe Municipal Commission In Us report to tho In 1877 a basis work to bo done A wan appointed to draw up a to bo presented to the Legislature embodying a plan of government for tbe city departments It wni also decided to hold a public meeting the last of this month at which all citizens Irrespective of party will ho asked to attend and join in work of the committee the mealing was uver Mr We aro getting our outlined and aro not yet ready to them to tho nubile men whe have Joined movement aro not In thu habit of attempting to correct abuses ID our Government without carrying oat the work to tbo end While wo have to of tho of tbo Municipal Commission a largo number of changes will bare to be made In Its report to meet thn enacted since that report was made present at our expressed ilia opinion that this ii the practical of tanny of the and now existing la ont City Government and when we can have ro- proper fewer more and greater efficiency he evils complained of will be largely abated Tills movement In to be entirely non- tisan and It to be tbe precursor of a general delphia effort by to benefit tho city MASSACHUSETTS MENTIONED FOR THE VACANCIES IK THR Jan 6 Tho sudden death of Judge John P Putnam of tho Superior bench of makes another to lie filled at by the appointment of tho Governor who It Is understood has just nominated Judge Marcus Morton of the Supremo bench to tho In of Judge Gray appointed to tbo United States Supremo bench and has to point a s accessor to Judge Morton as Justice The expectation Is that to 1111 vacancy on the Supremo bench to be made by the promotion of to tho a promotion will bo mado from tbo rior bench and tho most prominent tho present Judges of that bench mentioned for this promotion Is Pitman of who Trm appointed In by Gov and In politics la a Prohibitory Republican To fill tho two vacancies on tbo Superior bench caused by this and by death there are names already among them Oliver Holmes Jr tho son of tho pool who has already achieved a prominence In sion through book and lectures on tbo common taw The former la regarded as aa authority In Us way Another mime prominent Is that of Jamos M Darker of a member of the com- mission recently employed upon tho codification and revision of the ttntutcs of the Stato Another It tho lion Asa French now District Attorney for Norfolk and Plymouth EXPLODING A POWDER MAGAZINE FATE WHO THB ING AS A TARGET FOR RIFLE PRACTICE OSKALOOSA Iowa Janr A terrific sion of 600 kegs of powder tho property of tbo Company occurred bore thU It was caused by three John Phillips son of tho Mayor Gerald Joyce and John who used tbe side of the powder magazine a wooden structure as a get for rifle practice They wero Instantly killed and their bodies frightfully mangled and wero burled from 60 to WO yards away Nearly all tbo windows In tbo business quarter were broken by tho con- cussion and no any In tho southern part of the city badly damaged Tho losses aggregate not less than Many persans wero Injured by falling glass and The t hock or the explosion was fait nt Monroe on tbe Keokuk and Dei Railroad a distance of 80 A PIECE KINGSTON N Y Jan About six weeks ago a tailor employed as bead cutter In the clothing house of I In tola accidentally swallowed a silver piece with his children at his homo In Not supposing that any result would follow he paid no further to ine Incident weeks after- ward ho began lo cough and this trouble Increased until it u cough of groat and the man was lie thought he was afflicted with consumption and says ho was about making preparations to this world and Its trials A few days ago tbe cough became more violent than ever and ho suffered acute pain which scorned to proceed from his lunes It to him as If something was In this the right side All this time the swallowing of the ten-cent did uot to him The next day while In another violent nt and wuen In tho act of stooping over tbe coin Hew out of bis month The tailor's cough baa now disappeared THE CASE WASHINGTON Jan la tho Equity Court to-day tbe counsel for mado application for tho appointment of a to take the testimony of M and at Landing Mich In behalf of com- In suit for divorce against M After argument asked for the showing the manner in which the witnesses In had been sworn commented on tho length of occupied In the caso and aid would Ills CONGRESS RESUMES WORK MANY MEMBERS ABSENT FROM BOTH SOUSES MR ORTH PUBLIC OF TUB SPEAKER'S THE PROPER WAT TO INTRODUCE BILLS HOUSE ADJOURNS TO MONDAY Jan sessions of the Sonata and House to-day were short Only SO Senators ware In their places whan tho Chaplain offered tho prayer After tbe usual number of petitions and bills had been introduced the Senate adjourned until morrow President Davis has not recovered from tbe illness which threatened to prevent him from occupying tho chair to-day but it ia believed that ho will riot be compelled to re- main in bis hotel There was a light attendance in the House Tho only interesting feature of tho ings was Mr protest against the action of the Speaker Jn assigning him to Certain committees The veteran from feels what bo regards us tbo injustice dona him by Mr Keifer Ho rose to a question of immediately tbo reading of tbe journal and spoko as I nsk Indulgence to announce that It Is ray pose at no early day to Introduce for consideration and action a proposition to change the method of selecting committees The vast and diversified In- of tho country are all mote or less affected by and this legislation as Is well known IE exclusively controlled by tbe of For this reason their formation an Importance and Is In- vested u responsibility too great to rest In the hands of a single Individual however capable and honest and patriotic such an Individual may be AH now exercised It It emphatically a power nnd such a power Is dangerous In conflict with tho principles of republican government Jt Is our duty to that It may not at some future period be used to detriment of tho best Ini crests of the ple And now us to the question of privilege You have seen lit Sir to assign mo to three committees namely oa Foreign Affairs second place on and Chairman of the Committee on Civil Service Uy tho kindness nnd of my constituents I havo been for 12 yean n member of the House and I am now entering on my seventh term of service here With two Is not another member has thus long people During time I served as and Chairman of the on Claims us a member of the Committee on Ways and Means aud for 10 years aj a member of tho Committee on a part of which time as Its With an two 1 am iho only member of the present House who at any prior to this session lias ever us n C of any committee of this House In of this fuel I submit tho Speaker In liii recent action done an to mo and my constituents for relations be- tween a and his constituents aro so closely Interwoven that lo ono Is necessarily an Injustice to tho other They naturally feel u and Interest In proper recognition of nnd especially such recognition Is regarded by custom and courtesy of all bodies as to long of vice For Injustice there Is however no remedy AH that cun ho dono protest It its 1 now do for myself nnd my constituents for reasons 10 apparent as not to specification I ask the to ex- cuse mo from service as a member of tho Com- on Rules Many bills were introduced and referred and a resolution offered bv Mr Hewitt dori.iK the thanks of tho United States to tho of for the olielislc erected in New-York was adopted A tedious discussion arose about tho proper of getting bills before committees On tho ono hand it urged that they could be introduced through the petition box and that much time could bo saved thereby others held that improper reference and other disadvantages could be avoided only by Introducing them in tho ordinary way The Speaker ruled that should bo pre- sented in opon House in order to get 1C erly before a committee Mr Hewitt was re- from service on tho Committee on lic Buildings and Grounds at his own request At a little before 2 o'clock tho House adjourned till next By that it is expected the committees will bo organized and ready for the consideration of the bills which have been referred to them A CLAIM FROM THE LAST CENTURY GIDEON ALLEGED IN REPORTS ON TDK WASHINGTON Jan report has ready mado in tho Senate upon what may bo regarded as a sample of many which como before Gideon Walker who assorted that ho had been In tho service uf tho United States as a soldier from Mav 1793 till May 15 and had never received any pay beyond clothing and rations appealed to Congress for relief as early as 1845 of legislation on this claim how matters of this sort along from year to year un- til tho original claimants have been for many years in their graves In tho session the claim was stricken down by an adverse re- port In tho Congress there was another adverse report In the next thero was a report and the passed tho House Iti tho next thero was nn unfavorable re- port in the Senate after tho had passed tho House No reports wero mado in tho noit two Congresses An ad- verse report was encountered In tho and no action was taken lu tho Forty-sixth Congress although tho was com- With the Thirty-first Congress Gideon Walker disappeared and since that time his heirs have been tho claimants Senator Hoar now reports against tho on tbo ground that it is inexpedient so many yeara alter the data of service to pass a ot this character for tho C of a claim which rests solely on the affidavit of the dead petitioner who mado no to Congress for 50 years after the expiration of tho term of vice and not to tho department till 48 years after that time With many such tions as these Senators and members of the House nro obliged to busy themselves while weightier mattars aro postponed Thero are claims before Congress which aro older than this and which havo had a still more ore i career Tho brig Armstrong claim nas bothered Congressmen for 05 vean THE HARLEM RIVER CANAL ESTIMATES OF ITS STILL ANXIOUS TO DO THE WORK WASHINGTON Jan the propriation was made by Congress for tho proposed Harlem River Canal Charles Stoughton of New-York has endeavored to secure tho contract by offering to do tho work for a sum considerably less than the estimates submitted by the Chief of Engineers Tho of- estimate in 1875 was about and the bills introduced by Senator Cameron of Wisconsin and Representative Wait In the Forty-sixth Congress proposed that a contract should bo made with for The offer afterward amended so that it should be Tho official timate was for a channel -350 feat wide but Mr Stoughton proposes a channel 300 feet wide In a communication to Congress in January 1880 tho Secretory of War recommended authority should bo granted for the execution of contracts for tho wholo work tho should bo appropriated in installments as it has been In tbe past Ho than estimated tho cost at Thero wero then amounting to which were not able until a right of way should be secured to tho United States froo of cost Gen reported on Jau 5 1680 that the of tbo work ought to be a pledge that It would bo completed and therefore recommended that contracts for tho work should bo executed Gen Newton's estimate of seems to have been an estimate for only tho cut between tho Hndson and tho upper Harlem The least required to an In- complete cut sufficient only to effect a regular bnt not interchange of tidea be- tween tho East and Hudson Rivera through the Harlem would bo Secretary Ramsoy requested that action should be taken la accordance witb his recommendations Mr Stoughton la already bu hand this session with bis offer and Mr Updegraff of Iowa has in- a resolution requiring tho of War to contract with Stoughton to do the work before July 4 1884 for a sum not ing It Is probable however that if tho work is will be douo under tho direction of the War Department in tho usual way NOTES FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Jan 5 1882 The national bank notes received for re- to-day amounted to Tho President has withdrawn the nomination of E R Pope as Postmaster at N J Tho receipts from internal revenue to-day were 05 and from Customs 98044 Attorney-General Brewstor visited the tol to-day and was formally presented by Phillips to the Judges of the Supremo Court There is no truth in the report that tary Hunt tendered the Austrian mission He expects to remain at the head of tho Navy The on Appropriations to-day unanimously re-elected Major Robort clerk of the committee and Mr Carroll E Smith of Syracuse N Y was elected ant clerk A was introduced in tho Houso to-day by Mr Hawk of Illinois provide for arming and disciplining the Militia It is the same was introduced by Mr Scales in tho Forty-sixth Congress and favorably reported upon by tho committee Tho Treasury Department to-day chased ounces of sliver for tion at the San Francisco Philadelphia and New-Orleans Mints The offerings to-day wero unusually lurgo aud tho prices very high Tho Controller ot the Currency has the Lincoln National Bank of New-York and tbo First National Dunk of Saltsburg Perm to open tho former with a capital of and tho latter with a tai of The blank agency of tho Post Office ment which supplies all of tho forms ery to Post Offices of tho country has been transferred back to tho of First Assistant it was removed in July lost Major Rhodes will re- tain tho direction of tho agency Mr Garland offered a resolution in tho ate which was adopted instructing tho Committee on Finance to inquire into tha propriety of to persons wbo tor under thn trade-mark legislation tbo feo required by tbo act of Congress ing that subject which was decided by tho Supremo Court of the United States In the cuseu to bo unconstitutional and to report by or otherwise Tho Senate committee investigating the con- tingent fund expenditures of tho executive departments to-day tho tion of Mr and also recalled Mr Hatch formerly of tho Treasury Deportment Mr Beck who has charge of the horses owned by tho Treasury Department nnd Arthur McDormott of Washington woro subsequently tho latter in regard to orders by his firm for the repair of tho department carriages Timothy O Howe to-day took oath of entered upon tbo discharge of his as Postmaster-General The oath was administered by the venerable Judge Lawreason nn employe in the Second ant nnd a notary public Mr Howe is tho eighteenth Judge ad- ministered tho oath of office The department being practically without a Chief Clerk ono of the first acts of the Postmaster-General was to appoint son Mr Howe to a tion as chief of tbo division of tions and detail him for duty as Chief Clerk Mr Frank Howe says however that this is only temporary and ho has not jet decided upon retaining the office A copy of tho proceedings of a recent ing of tho Board of Trade and Transportation of York was presented in the Senate day It contained resolutions declaring that transportation rates by rail should be mined not absolutely as between competing roads by Iho distance but by tho net ings approving the stand of tho York Central as against discriminations of Scents per hundred in favor of Philadelphia and 3 cents per in favor of Baltimore mending laws to remove tho perplexity re- garding tbe value of tho trade dollar nnd to make it a legal tender te the extent that other silver dollars are a legal and favoring tho Canal route It also contained tho call for aa Executive Committee to sent the New-York organization in tho en- deavor to secure a national bankrupt law THE CABINET PROBLEMS WASHINGTON Jan 5 Tho presence of Sarrent of California on tho floor ef tho Houso to-day strengthened tho pre- vailing impression that bo is to bo nominated within a short time for tho of Secretary of tho Interior Among tbo other visitors was Attorney Brewstor who had just been formally presented to tho Supremo Court by Phillips Speculation in regard to tho President's choice of Secretary Hunt's successor seems lo be temporarily baffled The friends of William E Chandler apparently bavo grounds for hope Those who have been led to expect that tho Hon Alexander H Rico of setts would receive consideration direct at- tention to his service in tho House of for many years as Chairman of tho Committee on Naval Affairs Mr Rico was at tho boad of that ing tho war wben tho Chairmanship was n Tory important position and 0110 of groat responsibility It IB said that his ex- ia that gave him a thorough knowledge of tho duties which his ment as Secretary of the Navy would impose upon him Persons who havo conversed with tho present Secretary are of the opinion that tho does not intend to nominate his successor at present It is again said that Lincoln of the War Department eon have an important foreign mission if he will take It MR RETIREMENT WASHINGTON Jan 5 President Arthur in December requested James to remala In bis Cabinet Indefinitely Mr James a desire to remain until the end of tbo fiscal year Jano 30 1882 If ho bis to do 10 lie went to for that purpose but finding himself to make tbo arrangements wrote to tho President as NEW-YORK Deo 12 1881 MT DEAR Mn to our con- vocation of last Monday I have to state that tho Directors of tho Lincoln National Hank of this City my tbe 1st of January This will necessitate my tho department on or before that date Knowing my circumstances as you do I fool sura you will agree with mo that I cannot afford to lose this to provide for my future 1 write this letter became I urn detained hero by Important postal business In order that yon may be Fully advised of the fact before tho adjournment of tho Senate for tho holidays Very truly THOMAS L JAilES President To this letter tbo President sent the following re- WASHINGTON D C Jan 4 1882 HT DEAR Your the ult ing me that owing to the desire of the Directors of the Lincoln National Baak tn have your services Trom the 1st of January you wore unable to comply ray to remain in the you havo so wall filled was as you know received with re- gret thoush I conla not but admit tho force of tbe reasons which Influenced yon Now you are about to retire for tbo from life yoa will permit me to express my regret at the severance of onr official relations and my hope that you may be as successful In tbe private trust you aro about to as you have been In the public ones you have Laid down Very CHESTER A im L An AFFAIRS IN FOREIGN LANDS PEASES OF TBS IRISH AGITATION SUPPOSED OF A OF TOE CITY OF DUBLIN BY THE EARL OF OX THE QV DUBLIN Jan magistrate has granted a summons against policemen for seizing copies of the Irish at a without producing a warrant The Gazette states that the number of now in prison is 463 Jan Buddy and his have disappeared from near County Mayo and it is thought have been murdered and their bodies hidden in a bog Mr Forster Secretary for Ireland has loft Dublin to attend Cabinet Council He proceeded to Kingstown under Police escort Regarding the mandamus to bo applied for in tho Court of Quaen's Bench to quash tho resolution passed by tho Dublin Corporation the freedom of tho city on Mewrs Dillon aud Parnell a Dublin correspondent If tho point shall be established by the Queen's that no one who It not a burgess cnn under an existing of tho Corporation act tho freedom of tho it would all votes of such freedom which havo been passed if anybody chooses to press It thus tho names of Mr Gladstone nnd Oen Grant would bo erased from tho roll Bui it is questionable whether they would being deprived of a hat already lost much of its value by tho alloy of disaffection nnd disloyalty added to it by re- cent Tho Earl of Derby speaking last nicht at tho banquet of tbe Liverpool Reform Club an noun ceil himself us a thorough Liberal Dis- cussing the question of homo rule in Ireland the Earl America is not a despotic or reactionary country but wo know bow she dealt with secession and wo seo how soon and how thoroughly tho traces of a sanguinary have disappeared I do not see why wo should show less determination or havo less good fortune LONDON Jan letter from Mr Forster to is published declaring that Mr statement at tho landlords meeting that secret instructions wero given tbo acceptance ol which was tho condition of their appointment absolutely without foundation Tbo Lord Mayor's property defense fund now amounts to Tho Dublin Irishman denounces tho cations purporting to como from America recommending assassination and the USD of THR EGYPTIAN TROUBLES PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT Of MINISTERIAL CAIRO Jan Chamber of are elaborating standing orders in which it has been proposed to establish Ministerial to tho Houso in razard to inter- national obligations Pasha in a speech dwelt upon tbo necessity of observing these obligations and was loudly cheered LONDON Jan Times Tbo people of would view with serious prehension any further interference in tho in- ternal affairs of Tho idea of a joint Anglo-French military intervention would ex- cite tho gravest misgivings and would only bo enter tai ued in nny caso with the utmost re- premature lauding of foreign troops would in tho present condition of Egypt bo tho of disturbance Tho Standard and France after tbo accession of M to as President of tbe Council and Minister of For- eign Affairs sent a joint note to tbo in tho sense of tbe recently published dispatch of Lord Foreign This fact Is probably tho origin of the re- ports regarding intervention in thn of Egypt PARIS Jan Paris aays that tbe scheme for Anglo-French pation of Egypt is fantastical WARSAW REPORTED TO LE ON FIRE Jan Daily correspondent at says that a rumor was current in Cracow that Warsaw was in flames Ho adds that travelers from the sian frontier havo brought tho same report to CURRENT FOREIGN TOPICS VIENNA Jan of troops have been sent to South Dalmatia and Herzegovina ST PETERSBURG Jan stutes that the natives on tbo frontier havo retaliated tbo Chinese cruelties They bavo massacred tho inhabitants ef two Chinese settlements and defeated a detachment of 350 troops Jan tho banquet given Mr Morton the United States Minister to M and his colleagues to-day all the of tho Cabinet were present witb tbo exception of M Raynal Minister of Works Gen Minister of War and M Cazot Minister of Justice Thero were also present M Under Foreign tary Gen chief of the President's military household M of tho For- eign tho Prefect of Police tbo Governor of Paris Baron do of tho Foreign Office Walker and tho staff of tho Legation Tho Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen who recently returned from has published a letter describing the of the Pope Ho urges tho Italians to another capital and Rone to tho Fopo in to avert the necessity of his departure from that city Tho French authorities havo requested tho Bey to bring his brother Taib Boy to justice M Floquet has been appointed Prefect of tbo Seine in place of M deceased MADRID Jan Globe publishes an article urging tho Government not to to England uny rights which Spain IB Borneo CONSTANTINOPLE Jan has been received from Paris that M Gambetta intends to follow tho example of England's policy by granting to Tunis a largo measure of autonomy but will mako her pay a war indemnity BERLIN Jan lias arrived at Konigsberg on his wuy to at The Prussian Diet has been summoned to meet on tho 14th inst Tho Government's Ec- Is merely one empowering tho Prussian Government to provide for a con- administration of tbe May laws The Emperor William received more than a thousand congratulatory telegrams an tho Now Year some of them from America Tbe provisions of the naturalization treaty with America have finally been extended ail over Germany LONDON Jan Daily News The French Government has repudiated the conduct of its subordinates in the Island of Raiatea in tho Pacific which lias caused much in England and Tho Duke of Hamilton bos decided to sell bis magnificent library Including Beckford collection LONDON Jan Central News that an attempt was mudo to enter the vault at for the purpose it Is beloved of stealing the bodies of Napoleon IIL and the Prince rial A dispatch from Susa The Intention of the French permanently to occupy this city mere apparent They have already expended in restoring thu Citadel A correspondent at St Petersburg eays that the statement of the that the natives on the frontier have retaliated Chinese tbo cruelties they perpetrated ia untrue A dispatch from Berlin mentions a rumor that Nihilists have ordered a largo quantity of dynamite at RAVAGES OF THE DISEASE TUX POSTMASTER'S COMPLAINT WASHINGTON Jan received at tho Post Office Department Indicate that tbe pox Is still throughout the country A letter received at tbo department from a Post master In Pennsylvania says that the disease hai appeared iu hli town and a doctor who ii treating a number of cases persists In calling nt the office for his mall matter Many citizens have Informed the Postmaster that they will refuse to their malls If these visits aro allowed aad tho cer is In a quandry and aski for advice Us ha: been Informed that he has no power to from calling for their mall and under these circumstances the matter must he mutually ar ranged between tho citizens aad tbe doctor ST PAUL Minn Jan J A Duboia of St Paul who sent to Stearns by the State Board of Health as a special Com mis sloner from that body to take such measures at he doomed proper to cheeK tbe spread of has returned to tho city He lias bad a hard time and that the condition of affairs In County was appalling when he reached lucre The population s made up of and of tb most sort They Trere not for amenable to reason bad u vaccination For some their priests abetted opposition to this pre being themselves believers In tbe tenets of tho German of who ridicule Dr and his discovery But the guides were converted at and did service In to submit lo wha nt eno considered un awful ordeal Dubols Rays he Is more aud moro thoroughly con that vaccination Is nil essential nnd excellent as a prevention Ho cites num ana Ills own caso Is wcl lu point The first night be reached thu district ho slept In a bed Just quitted by a patient and has been constantly exposed to COB taglon for weeks A rigid quarantine was and has been kept np and Dr Dubols says a cordon nf Vaccination proved the most effectua of to prevent tho spread Tbo In thoroughly checked and alarm has was tbo worat affected thero cases therein and only three In thu adjoining townships of Henry and Lako George have been 33 deaths all told With tho manner o life most of thu are to with tbe superstitious fancies which had to be com bated It was found impossible to uso collodion to prevent and much was expert la Introducing tho use of as ua KEOKUK Iowa Jan are no now capes of email poz lu this One death from the disease occurred at the Thu President of tbo Keokuk Hoard of Health In a lot tcr answering the Inquiry of health authorities 01 neighboring towns tbe of the disease Thero Is a limited number o oases confined entirely lo medical anc there Is as yet no assured tendency tp spread citizens outside Jl originated from un within the Thure are nine cases In all four of which havo been removed to the three miles from the city Two died and are In the city The Medical Col loco hoa been eloped br order of the Hoard Health This may bo relied upon u a troo state ment of situation at this mement Every means It belae taken lo off tho epidemic and stamp It out and with cood hope of Vaccination Is generally resorted to N J Jan cases of In and East Lone Branch havo been Investigated by Dr T O tie Chairman of tho Sanitary Committee of tbe Chattle stated morning that tlic only case of tbe disease in the vicinity of this place is at Deal Tho patient a servant clrl In tbe of actress has been removed to a small homo In tno gome from auy other dwelling where sho Is receiving proper caro UNITING PALACE CAR LINKS NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONSOLIDATING THE PULLMAN AND WAGNER CHICAGO Jan complete tion of tho sleeping car companies of country and Canada seems now about to be effected Tho recent railroad war bos apparently brought tbo Wagner and Pullman Companies to a sharper ro- of tbe benefits lo bo derived from an arrangement The Company has hereto fore- stood aloof from overtures of Its and smaller rival but tho combination of Gould and tbe Pullman Company and tne efforts being made by Could to pul tho ner can on of the rival Important Western roads has brought thu Pullman Company ton point where it Ii ready to consider Tho situation from tbe of tho old company is outlined in the folio wine Interview with Mr U It that Decollations are for n consolidation of Pullman and Wagner sleeping car asked a reporter Oh answered Mr George If Pullman It IB DO secret that such Decollations havo been pending for two years and meetings havo been held looking lo auch a consolidation What IB tho real of the consolidation f My part of tho plan Is wholly for the comfort and convenience If tbe sleeping oar of tho country le under one management It then becomes possible to run through in aay point while at through can can only be run on those lines and using thu Pullman or tho Wagner cart What about Jay Mould's opposition la your company Much a thing and tho outcome may bo learned within a few days I believe Is to help out tho system uses Wanner sleepers by arranging to put Wagner sleepers on the Gould thereby extending the service of that company's cars and making more through Wagner cur Is It true that declared the Pullman can on the Pennsylvania to bo an advertisement tno New-York Central f 1 understand ho eald that precisely Will Mr the Pullman cars on as ho U with Ho mnv by purchasing thorn Onr contracts Provide companies running onr cars mny nuy hem under conditions and by complying with tho contract may accomplish his purpose What effect would tend to harmonize them to a grent degree t I a grand union line of oars on all railways In America would have a happy effect ultimately A PANIC AT A ABOUT FORTY SIX IIY A QuiNCY 111 Jan tho funeral nervlcoi of tho liev Simon at tbo Salem Evangelical Church this afternoon a ful occurred In iho msa for tho street abont forty persons were Injured six ail ladles seriously The church Is ono Of tbo largest in tbe city aud was filled by tbo friends of tbo dead clergyman All tho teats Were and all the room In tho aisles and about tho doors was occupied Soon tbo services com- the occurred H Is laid that a soat in the gallery broko down nnd the people Boar bv thought iho gallory was giving away and tho rush and children poured out of tho doors from the main floor and Into tbo hull lending to all forts to Mop them being Tho people weru frantic and would listen to nothing Tbo that followed was Indescribable Tno shrieks of tho with tho of the mon who seemed to bo frightened out of their woro fearful In a the wuy was blocked up and during tbo lion of this half a dozen women were lying on tho stops nuder tho feel of the crowd A few mon who had recovered from their fright worked heroically to rescue the unfortunate women and succeeded In extricating them from perilous As fast as taken out they were removed lo and cared for It was ound that several seriously and probably tally Injured Mrs a married lady about 45 old received Internal Injuries from which It s believed ahe will dlo Map vie Meyer a young ady was bruited In tbe face by and Injured Internally Mary Koyes Mary Ann Hotter and Mn all young wars seriously Injured and their Is Mrs an elderly ady Airs and Lohman and Wiseman also Injured Tbe Rev Dr aok was In tbe crowd and had a rib broken Many who had been knocked down and only Injuries were taken homo M soon is and their could not be There won no canse whatever for the After the excitement which lasted for an hour had the funeral wore Oa Jan P has under an action of jail trover brought by H U Co of York The amount claimed Li THE CASE WEARING AN ENP PROBABLE CLOSE OF G 0 TRIAL NEXT WEEK TDH BOTH ECO- AND MR THAT THE IS Til E COST OF TUB TRIAL WASHINGTON Jan Counsel for tho de- fema In the will present their to Jodge Coz to-morrow morning Honor will rule them Saturday morning Im- mediately after tno of tbe court Mr video will then make the opening argument for the prosecution will probably occupy entire day Mr will reply for tho defensa on Monday and will be followed by Col Hoed and who will bo permitted to address the If ha desires to do so Judge Porter will closing argument to the re- marked this morning that bo did not think tun would more than four days If expectation Is realized the will ably go to the jury not later than neit Meura ana Heed to-night finished preparation of the to offered by tho do for lo the Jury Thero are 14 dames The main raised aro that tin legal test of U whether thu ael done u tbe it-suit of an lasano de- lusion or committed under an Influence 01 power which the accused could not resist bj reason Of hit of that If the would not done tho act but for such Insane delusion ho Is not of the that If the Jury hare n doubt as to the of tbe should Klve him benefit of the doubt that the Jury may lake Into account of feeling on the part of witness that tho jury have a right to consider the suppression of dence by the prosecution as mixing a pre- sumption that such evidence If produced would have been unfavorable to the prosecution that II the Jury believed the prisoner of mind but without malice In the commission of the act they render R verdict of ter that the Jury find a verdict of not guilty tho of the Indictment rep resenting oi the In the of Columbia and a know ledge that his act woi contrary 10 law would nut iho accused liable to punishment If he dM It under thu delusion thai It Tras commanded by iod Neither Mr nor Mr Roed ai all sanguine of obtaining a favorable tr their client yet bolli oi stoutly maintain noi only that was legally for bii act but thM he Is at this moment an Insane man his own assertion to the contrary notwithstanding Mr was greatly disappointed nt his fallun to get before the Jury yesterday the additional ox pert evidence with which ho had to very testimony of He did not lo tho lega of Judge ruling but un derail the that the greatest tail wilhin the discretion of ilia court would hart been the Introduction at any ft ace ol trial of any evidence material and vital to thn defense n the defense will no ground upon lo eland before the jury If cour lhall nilo favorably upon tho tjj tho prosecution This feeling la snared la n great by counsel for the who will to sucU a ruling as will them an opportunity to plead any possible doubt that may be shown of Ibo plication to tho case of Iho Ictal of Insanity and responsibility Judge Cox ban Issued the following directions ai to the management of the court room argument of No to lie allowed to tho Hand In the north-east corner of the the Jury In In this no to eutei there after the Is each day lu to the counsel and Jury though visitors may be admitted am Invited to on the bench All parsons ing tho during iho ment muet pass out through tho do ore to avoid pasting between counsel and jury for that object a passageway Is to be left be- tween tbe trial table and the audience tbo south to be kept clear to allou passing In and out the scaco before the jury to kept clear Tho Marshal Is charged with the of tbo foregoing directions A rough estimate of ihu amount of money so fat disbursed for witness anil mileage by tho Mar ilial tbe cost of tho Government In trial at ond iho witnesses ful the defense at 20 aro many whose bills have not yet been paid MURDERERS PURSUED BY A MOB TUB OP THE A ACTION Ky Jan 5 Brown fearing taat the great crown from would prevent him from tbe cases of tbo en of the family tho steamer Mountain Girl to get up and tako the prisoners to Ky for safe Ing to the difficulty of the prisoners on board the Sheriff put them on a nnd started down the river The mob took possession of tho steamer Mountain Girl and la pursuit Tho Mountain Hoy Ohio 10 miles from with the al 2 P II Tho Girl with iho mob stopped at and mot made efforts to si cure a train to head off the tain Hoy at Portsmouth or port Ohio Jan Thu summer Mountain Hoy heard Ellis Craft Ellis und William Meal tho Ashland murderers guarded by n detachment of the Guards n military 75 In number and provided with arms and touched al tils point lor coal at afternoon Kills when what he has already confessed illil nut differ from what has been reported nnd still claims Ills shuro In the murder only of an witness Tho Hudson with tho met tho Mountain at I- above core and trans- ferred the Maysville Guards tto tho Mountain liny Thn mob on the Girl which a or two behind nt lime abandoned suit on thai the were ly guarded by the boisterous demon attended the of tbe Mountain Uov ai this point but It required the utmost of tho civil officers and the to keep tbe crowd from on to tho boat CINCINNATI Jan A special from land says that 300 man to to day to tho and scu luat thoy a fair trial Judge Brown had notice of their tion and nonce tbo feeling him for sending tbe aw ly An Indignation meeting WHS hold and a resolution adopted ing Intention to bring back iho prisoners and pledging their honor 10 protect them until have had a trial A wus pointed to wall on Judge nud Induce him lo rescind his order bnl the refused to rtu in Al a later hour a was held aud u resolution adopted to Iho for a to be held next Monday for thu trial of tbo prisoners Tho excitement over tho Intense Ky Jan Tho Ashland murderers arrived bore iu lo o'clock wure safely lodged In Jail JAY Tit IP ST Louis Jan Gould and party of Andrews U T Clark Charles A C W F Georgo T Gould A U Hopkins G O'Hara and others here to-day There U a great deal of speculation as to the object of Mr Gould's visit although it h generally conceded that It Is for thi of making some chances Ii the linos It Is rumored that It will in Mr John retirement from the tho Wahash his place to filled Mr Hopkins or Mr both whom are now In hoy wero called to meet Mr Gould Il s Mr Is to general management of tho combined lines between Toledo and Kl Paso Mr Gould has not Indicated to any outside person bli and It U probable thoy will not be consummated CA ST Louis Jan Mississippi Valley Association has In sloa hero for daya adjourned tine die o day Tho officers weto selected or the ensuing President N J of St Louis X K Stout of Troy Corresponding Prof of F 1C of Edwardsville 111 A Field of St H W of Ind A WESTERN ASSOCIATION CHICAGO Jan number of sportsman and met hero to-day aud formed an association for ha protection of fame and A committee was appointed to legislation to a future meeting It n contemplated ia hold a meeting jointly with tbe State Association next Rummer with a view to the formation of a association for tbe protection of game aad Qsh The organized to-day U to bo called The Chicago
