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THE WILLIS INDEX.
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WILLIS. TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1887.
VOL. IV.-NO. 14.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
ComDlled from Various Source*.
Ex-Secretart Manning's health is re-
ported to have grown worse since his ar-
rival in England.
TnE total debt of the United States i»
now $1,708,*207,518.61. It was decreased
dui.ng March $13,808,467.71.
A witness in the Haddock murder trial
at Sioux City, la., testified on the 2d that
he saw Leavitt lire the fatal shot.
Secretary Lamar has asked for troops
to be sent to Oklahoma to keep out the
threatened invasion of boomers this
spring.
James E. Robinson, of Fargo, Dak., has
been disbarred from practising as an at-
torney bofor9 the Interior Department,
its bureaus and local offices.
Revolutionary movements in Bulgaria
are becoming alarmingly frequent, the
hands of Russian emissaries being plainly
visible wherever trouble occurs.
Mrs. General Looan is said to have
turned authcress, a novel from her pen
ou Washington society being in readiness
to go into the hands of the printer.
News of disasters to sealing vessels off
Newfoundland continues to be received,
and it is estimated that the loss of life
will aggregato several hundred persons.
It is the opinion in European diplcmatio
circles that the Czar of Russia will soon
be driven into war if for no other reason
than to divert tho attention of Internal ag-
itators.
The comments of the London papors on
the new Land bill, auu on tho popular
feeling over proposed coercion legislation,
are not very encouraging to the govern-
ment side.
Formal complaint has been made to the
Civil-Service Commission against Collec-
tor Beeburger, of Chicago, charging him
with violation of the law. He will have a
hearing about April IS.
Sentiment in Canada is reported to be
crystalling strongly against the govern-
ment's Anti-Bait bill. It is claimed that
the mo-,]sure will prove more detrimental
to Canada than to Americans.
A meeting of fishing vessel owners $nd
skippers was held at Gloucester, Mass.,
on the 29th, and an important letter was
read, intended for President Cleveland's
perusal. It pertained to matters apropos
of retaliation measures.
Baron De Strove, the Russian Min-
ister, accompanied by Seoretary Bayard,
paid a farewell visit to the President on
the 29th prior to sailing for Russia. It is
said at tho Department of State that the
^ minister goes to Russia on leave of ab-
sence toj^sit his family.
is v. x*d% Paj.mfr, secretary of the
American Congregation <»i XJulun, aiou at
'Newark, N. J., on the 29th, aged seventy-
nine. Ho was born in Rhode Island and
graduated from Yale colloge In 1880. He
was author of the well-known hymn, "My
Faith Looks Up to Thee."
Tiie Inter-State Commerce Commission
Is going to have its hands full. Georgia
representatives, who were first to tender
congratulations on the passage of the
bill, are also first to discover that the
necessarily revised freight tariffs are go-
ing to work ruin to tho Southern shippers.
Among the warrants issued by the
Treasury Department on the 29th was one
for $150,000 in favor of tho board of man-
agers of the National Homo for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, to be used in the erec-
tion of a branch homo for disabled volun-
teer soldiers west of tho Rooky Moun-
tains.
Seoretary Whitney has approved the
report of the board appointed to select the
sitos for tho two now dry docks au
thorizod by the last Congress. The docks
will be located at the Now York and Nor-
folk yards, and will be built by contract
on tho general plan of the Simpson dry
docks.
Kino Christian of Denmark has been
informed from St. Petersburg that anoth-
er unsuccessful attempt has been made
upon tho Czar's life. News has also been
received of the discovery of a conspiracy
in the Caucasus. One hundred officers of
tho Tiflis garrison have been arrested for
complicity in the plot.
Commissioner Sparks of tho General
Land Office has issued an order creating
' a contest board to which all contest cases
now pending, or hereafter arising, In the
pre-emption and public lands divisions,
shall bo referred for examination and de-
cision. After action is taken by this
board upon a contest case, it will go to the
Board of Review.
The identity of Win. Kissane. tho fu-
gitive Now York forger, who disappeared
over thirty yoars ago, seems to bo settled
upon William K. Rogers, a wealthy ranch
owner of Sonoma County, Cal. Ho Is said
to havo been one of General Walker's fili-
bustering party in Nicaragua, and to have
afterward accumulated wealth by a luoky
mining striko in Novada.
The Postmaster-General has issued a
circular letter to postmasters calling at-
tention to tho advantages of the special
delivery system and urging them to com
mond its use to the public as worthy of
confidence. Its value, he says, will grow
with the growth of its business, every in-
creaso of patronage bringing with it the
means of increased ofllciency.
The engrossing clerks of Congress,
careful as they are, occasionally make
errors which cause the accounting of-
ficers no end of trouble. In the Naval
Appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year the following item is written: "Con-
tingent marino corps—furniture foi
government horses and repairs for same."
Of course, houses aro meant, but tho ex-
act accounting officers do not know in
what way to get around the "horse," the
word being written so plainly that no ef-
fort of the imagination could transform it
into "houses."
Captain Rush R. Wallace, of the navy,
Who was stationed at St. Louis for sev-
eral years as inspector of the light-house
distriot, and while there married Miss
Patterson of that city, has just been given
an important command. He has, for some
time, been oaptain of the yard at the navy
yard at Washington, having remained
in charge after the retirement of the
former commandant, Admiral Queen. He
has now been regularly detailed by the
Secretary of the Navy as commandant of
the yard, which offloe he will permanent-
ly fill under the new regime which makes
the Washington yard an ordnance foun-
dry.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
General Sheridan has returned to
Washington from his Western trip.
The sale of the Stewart statuary collec-
tion began in Now York on tho 31st. Tho
bids for many cholco works were so low
that thoy wore rejected.
News of the loss of the sealing steamer
Eagle, off tho Newfoundland coast, Is con-
firmed. It is considered certain that two
hundred and fifty seamen perished.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
were sworn in at Washington on tho Cist,
and organized by tho election of Judge
Cooley as chairman.
e Pittsburgh (Pa.) police aro on-t
deavoring to learn of tho whereabouts or
fate of a bride of three weeks, who has
been missing since the recent wreck at
Leetonia, O.
There was an army of dead-heal pas-
sengers on the trains of tho Pennsylvania
Company's lines on the 31st. Tho freo-
pans "habit" expired on that system at
midnight of that day.
William Rice Ward, a Missouri pio-
ser, diod on tho 1st at Sodalia, aged
ninety-four years.
Police Inspector Somefille and Con-
stable Garrett, who were found guilty by
the coroner's jury of murdering Hanlon,
at Youghal, Ireland, havo boon released
a their own recognizancos.
The Secretary of War, in order to re-
spond to tho request of Senator Cockroll,
chairman of the Senate select committee
to investigate tho work of tho depart-
ments, has directed a thorough investiga-
tion of the work of each bureau.
A pension has been granted Peter Schu-
makor, formerly private in Company D,
Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, on tho ground
of insanity. He gets $73 per month and
arrearages, aggregating $12,50J, one of
the biggest pension payments ever made.
General P. M. B. Young, of Georgia,
lato tho Consul-Genoral at St. Petersburg,
is prominently mentioned for appoint,mbnt
to tho Austrian mission. General Young
himself states, however, that ho is not an
applicant for the position.
Edward M. Newman, in the employ of
Michael Lovinson, wholesale clothier, New
York, was arrested on tho 31st, charged
with defrauding tho firm of over $75,003
by moans of false entries and misusing
the checks of the firm. Newman was taVon
to tho Tombs.
A ten thousand dollar mail robbery as-
tonished the Now York post-oflleo officials
on tho 30th. A clerk namod Clark was
finally centered upon as tho thief, and he
was arrested on tho 8lst, th3 missing
package being found later, and finally
Clark confessed, and was sent to jail.
Both tho ocean cable linos of the Bon*
nett-Mackay Cable Company are broken,
and the company is doing its busmoss
over the French ILj. Tho breaks will
soon be repaired.
Secretary Endicott has issued a cir-
cular calling for information relative to
the condition of business in the War De-
partment, the business methods of the
bureaus and other matters required by
Senator Cockrell's committee.
Two men, engineer and fireman, were
killed in a railway collision on tho 1st
near Corinth, Miss.
Jo» Talbot*^ one of the most .notorious
burglars on the continent, was captured
In New York City on the 1st.
Some of Congressman Springer's friends
have recommended him to tho President
for the vacant Southern Illinois jud ge-
ship.
Queen Victoria was received with
much pomp and ceremony at Cannes,
France, on the 1st.
Prop. Richard A. Proctor, tho astron-
omer, is going to remove from St. Joseph,
Mo., to Florida.
It develops that the latest attempt on
the Czar's lifo was made by an army offi-
cer, wno fired at but missed the monarch.
Martin V. Montgomery, of Michigan,
has been appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of tho District of Col-
umbia.
"Buckskin Joe" (J. S. Wirks) is at Fort
Worth, Tex., perfecting a Pan-Handle
colony scheme. He is still determined to
settle in Oklahoma.
After serving ten months of a year's
imprisonment sentence, at Blackwell's
Island, Horr Most, the Anarchist loader,
was releasod on the 1st and returned to
New York City.
The "Billy Kissane" sensation at New
York and San Francisco is unabated.
"Billy's" lawyer failed to get his old in-
dictment nolle prossed at Now York.
"Billy's" identity lias not yet boon given
to tho pu blic.
The Pension Office, on the 1st, lssuod
1,000 pension certificates. This is said to
be the largest numbor ever issued in one
day by the bureau.
The Now York Time* announces that
Jake Sharp will be the next "boodler"
brought to trial by District Attorney Mar-
tine. Tho case will doubtless come on in
May boforo Judge Barrott.
There are now before the General Land
Office 36,105 casos awaiting adjudication.
During tho past week 1,268 land patents
were approved.
Mrs. Folsom has returned from Michi-
gan, and is In retiremont at Oakvlew. Mrs.
Cleveland drives out each day and spends
an hour with her mother.
The President has recognized ArturoP.
Gushing as Consul of the United States of
Mexico for Boston, Mass., and its district,
and Isaac T. Smith, Consul-General of
Siam at New York.
During the week ending March 26, 123
final homestead entries woro approved by
the Commissioner of tho General Land
Olfico; 354 final timber culture entries; 41
final desert land entries, and 791 cash
timber land entries, making a total of
1,26S land patents approved. There are
86,105 cases ponding boforo the office.
Lewis Stewabt, colored, was hanged at
Laurens, S. C., on the 1st, for tho murder
of his wife.
Mrs. Cleveland recently received a
call from the former bride of the White
Houle, Mrs. John Tyler, who is visiting
her son, Dr. Lachlan Tyler, in Washing-
ton. Mrs. Tyler was introduced by Mrs.
Vilas.
Postmaster Pepper of Boscobel, Wis.,
was arrested on tho 1st by tho United
States marshal on a charge of misappro-
priating funds of tho Government to the
extent of $403. In dofault of bonds for his
appearance in oourt he was taken to Mad-
ison to await trial. *
Colonel Robert G. Inoersoll was ad-
mitted to praotice at the bar in the State
of Now York, on the 1st, bofore tho gen-
eral term of the Supreme Court. When
he was asked to be sworn he refused, and
affirmed in place thereof. He thon signed
the rolL
About three hundred and fifty painters,
comprising the Painters' unions of New
Haven, Conn., went out on strike on the
1st beoause of the rofusal of tho bosses to
conoede shorter hours of labor and pay
for overwork. The plumbers, gas and
steam fitters also went out They number
about fifty. Their demand is for shorter
hours, pay for overwork, and double pay
on holidays.
Mb. Gladstonb sharply criticizes Speak-
er Peel's action in applying the cloture in
the reoent debate on the iVwaIa* bill In
the House of Commons.
Legal proceedings have been institutea
against the captain of the bark Ada Mel-
more, which collided with the British
emigrant ship Kapunda, off the Brazilian
coast, January 20, when tho latter was
sunk and over throo hundred persons
drowned. The captain of tho Ada Mel-
more is charged with infringing on the
regulations to prevent collisions.
The coinage of tho mints during the
month of March was $5,195,906, of which
$8,030,880 was in standard silver dollars.
The Hotel de Monte, at Monterey, Cal..
tho handsomest watering-place hotol in
America, costing $350,030, was destroyed
by fire on tho 3d.
Investigation into the affairs of A. M.
Stanton, of Detroit, Mich., who ran away
with the funds of George K. Sistare &
Son, of Now York, shows a shortage oi
$28,000.
TnE fine Roman amphitheater, in Aus-
tria, on tho Adriatic, suddenly collapsed
on tho 3d, and foil into an immense chasm
which opened on tho site, and from this
chasm volcanic vapors aro now emittod.
A large tenement building in Pitts-
burgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire on tho
31, and ten families lost all thoir worldly
possessions, some of them narrowly es-
caping with tho'.r livos.
Dr. Charles Bruil, of Avoca, Wis., hat
been arrested and lodged In jail on 8
charge of having poisoned his wife.
The murdered girl at Rnhway, N. J.,
has again been identified, this time as
Wilhelmina Johnson, of Brooklyn.
Three Russians, who attempted to as-
sassinato tho Czar on March 13, havo been
hanged at St. Petersburg.
By a railroad collision on tho Canada
Southern section of tho Michigan Central
railroad, near St. Thomas, Ont., on the
3d, two brakomon were killed and a large
amount of rolling stock wrocked.
A successful trial of the Terry cable
system for street railways was made upon
an experimental track in St. Louis on the
3d, and it soems to bo tho coming motor
for that city.
The Irish con? table Dornoy, who re-
fused to take part in the arrest of Fat,hoi
Ryan, has been dismissed from the forcA
Tho government will not prosecute him.
Work on the guns for tho new war-ships
is being pushed at tho Washington Ord-
nance foundry.
Mrs. Nellie Smith, of 10 Harper's
•ourt, Brooklyn, visited Rahway, N. J., oc
the 8.1, and said that she identified th(
body of the murdered girl as that of hei
former servant, named Sophia Smith.
The Pope has sent a confidential com
munication to Prussian bishops, inviting
suggestions as to the feasibility of es-
tablishing munciature at Berlin for Prus-
sia, or ono munciature for the whole oi
Germany.
Queen Victoria held a reception at the
Villa Edelweiss, Cannes, on the 3d, errant
ing audience to the most prom inent En-
glish sojourners and permanent residents
there, together with tho officials of the
town.
At a meeting of Cincinnati Typography
cal Union No. 8, on tho 8d, tho price oi
composition was raised from forty cents
to forty-five cents per 1,030 ems on morn-
ing papers, and a proportionate advance
on afternoon sheets and job work.
About thirteen thousand applications
for Mexican pensions have boon filod, but
they havo hardly begun yet to come out of
the mill, although one hundred volunteer
clerks are working on them over-time.
Seven were granted last week, but thoy
had been made special under the general
provisions of the Pension Office. In ti
short time, however, it is expected the
preliminary work will bo over, and then
they will be granted at the rate of a thou-
sand or more a week.
Two more bodies have been discovered
in the ruins of the Richmond Hotel at
Buffalo, N. Y.—those of a man and a
woman. They were found near tho cen-
ter of the building. Thoir identity so far
remains a mystery.
A man named O'Rourke has been ar»
rested at Niagara Falls on suspicion ol
being the person who recently robbed the
express messenger on the West shore
railroad.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Chicago and Cincinnati carpenters are
out on a striko.
As the result of a flood at Ingorsoll,
Ont., on tho 4th, six persons aro reported
drowned.
A vicious convict namod Cunningham
attempted to assault Judge Moore in tho
Brooklyn Court of Sessions on tho 4th.
News from Afghanistan indicates that a
bloody civil, and perhaps international,
war is not far distant.
Judge William S. Pierce, a loading
spirit of anti-slavery days and for over
twenty years past on tho bench, died on
tho 4th at Philadelphia.
The American students at a Catholic
college in Rome on the 4i h paid tributes of
regard to Cardinal Gibbons
John L. Sullivan was introduced to tho
President on the 4th, and the latter "re-
spectfully declined" a course of exorcise
with the Bostonian for teacher.
The now government scheme for Al«
sacc-Lorraine has boon completed.
Among tho "reforms" is an addition of
8,000 troops to tho Strasburg garrison.
A committee has boon appointed from
tho Virginia Legislature to meet a com-
mission of foreign bondholders and make
an effort to settle tho State debt.
Three Cuban fiends, guilty of horrible
murders and barbaritios, woro legally
executed rccontly at Santiago do Cuba by
shooting. A rare scene of dfl^*f it bravado
was witnessed. *
General John McI$ulta, of'Blooming-
ton, 111., has been appointed receiver of
tho Wabash railway linos oast of the Mis-
sissippi rivor, to succeed Judgo Cooley.
Trouble has arisen between England
and Venozuela, and England is concen-
trating naval and military forcos in tho
port of Caracas, tho Venezuelan capital.
H. S. Canpield, the reporter who was
imprisoned at Austin, Tex., by order of
the Legislature, has sued tho members of
that body for damages aggregating $110,-
035.
An animated scono was witnessed on
tho 4th in the British Houso of Commons
because of some severe strictures usod
by a member on the Speaker's conduct in
connection with the cloture debate.
A conference composod of delegations
representing the British colonial posses-
sions opened in London on the 4th. Lord
Salisbury, British prime minister, gave
his views on imperial federation.
General W. P. Eugarton, formerly
chief postal inspector at St. Louis and af-
terwards transferred to Boston, from
which point ho was recently moved to tho
Pennsylvania division, has resigned.
M. Katkoff, editor of the Moscow Ga-
telle, has been condemned to death by the
executive committee of the revolution-
ists at St. Petersburg. He has received
his death warrant, duly signed and coun-
tersigned.
Delegates representing tho milling In-
terests of Scotland met at Glasgow on the
4th aud passed resolutions demanding of
the governmont the imposition of theduty
upon foreign flour.
SOUTHERN GL.EANING3.
A company Is being forme l at Slirovo-
port, I h., to erect a cotton mill.
Poftlhaster Hugor of Charleston, S. C.,
diod a few days ago. He was appinted by
President Cleveland. Already there aro
four or five candidates for the office.
A plowman on a farm near AUanta, Ga.,
a few days since, turnod up $1,10) in gold,
supposed to have boon buriod during tho
war.
Mr. John Green, aged eighty-four, and
ono of the oldest, if not the oldost, citizens
of Bibb County, Ga., is said to bo at the
point of death.
Two promluont lawyers of Nowborry,
S. C, exchanged nine shots in a crowded
court-room a few days since, one of thorn
being fatally wounded.
Tho cotton mills of the West Point (Ga.)
Manufacturing Company were totally
consumod by fire a few nights ago. Tho
loss is $.'03,000; insurancdfllti^OOD.
Tho Raleigh, (N. C.) Cottonseed Oil
mills and fertilizer factory woro burned a
few days ago. Loss $63,000; insurance
$35,030. The fire was probably accidental.
Tho Tennessee Sonato ha4* psissed a bill
to require railroad companies to establish
comfortable waiting rooms at all stations
where tickets are sold, tho act to take ef-
fect six months after passage.
During a heavy thunder-storm which
swept over Florida, a few nights ago, the
lightning set fire to a store in Internachen,
a littlo town about fifteen miles south of
Jacksonville. Boforo tho fire was gotten
under control two of tho largost stores in
tho place wore destroyed; also, two pri-
vate residences and one office, causing a
loss of fully $3,003.
Cattle in the Texas drought, district are
reported perishing for water.
A ono-huudrod-and-two-yoar-old woman
in Rockdale County, Gi., can thread a
needlo as oasily as any one, aud walks
five miles a day regularly.
There is a farm ono hundred miles long
and ono hundred miles wide in Louisana.
It cost $50,000 to fence it.
A great chickon main is arrangod to
tako place at Parkorsburg, Va., during
the Easter holidays. About two hundred
battles will bo fought.
A. M. Smith, a lawyer of Calvort, Tex.,
was foully murdesed while plowing in
his field a few days ago, by some unknown
person.
A potato crop disoaso, called the
'blight," has broken out In Louisiana, and
is doing groat damage.
Fears aro exprossod in tho South that
tho fruit crop has been injured by recent
frosts, and already exports aro giving
varied and differing testimony in tho mat-
ter.
Captain C. E. Dutton, of the Geological
Survey, In studying upon tho Charleston
earthquake, ascertained that the waves
traveled between four thousand aud fivo
thousand motors per second.
A man with a wonderful beard
has been attracting attention
Runnels County, Tex. It is alleged
that ho ties it about his nock for
muffljr, UBes it as a chest-protector, and
?urls up under it at night instead of using
Dlankets.
Mrs. John Kennedy, of Louisville, Ky.,
has just been rcoq>m.i^ted...to an insane
asylum for entertaining the strange hal-
lucination that her real husband and hor
two children havo been spirited away and
others substituted in their stoad.
A fire aj. Columbus, Ga., a fow days
ago, destroyed the shoe store of W. R.
Bedell and the clothing store of J. K. Har-
ris & Co. Bedell's loss is $11,030; insur-
ance, $7,000. Harris & Co.'s loss is $18,000;
insurance, $10,000. Tho dry goods store of
J. A. Kirven & Co. was slightly damaged
by smoke and water. Loss covered by in-
surance.
Near Beulah, Miss., a few evenings
since, W. L. Lowo, a member of tho Leg-
islature from Bolivar County, shot Char-
lie Yaman several times, from tho result
of which Yaman diod three hours after-
ward. As far as can be learned the diffi-
culty arose through Yaman's intimacy
with Lowe's wife.
Betsy Cook, colored, living a few miles
from Brookhavon, Miss., went to a field
to work a few daya ago, loaving her
three small children to take care of their
house. On her return she found tho house
in ashes and her three children burned to
death.
Mother Sympporas, of the Sisters of
Lorette, was buried at Montgomory, Ala.,
a fow days ago. She had been for several
years Mother Superior of tho Roman Cath-
olic convent there, and was greatly beloved
by tho whole community. She was born
at Lorette, Ky., forty-five years ago, of
parents named Warren, and dedicated
hor life to tho sisterhood at the age of fif-
teen.
A jury at Dningerfleld, Tex., in the case
of Mrs. Culberson against the East Line
railroad, a branch of tho Missouri Pacific,
for damages for killing her husband, a
conductor on that road, brought in a ver-
dict assessing tho damages at $13,000—
$6,000 for tho support of herself and $3,000
each for tho support of her two little chil-
dren.
Tarleton Stool, colored, killed his wife
with an axo a few days ago, near Ada,
Ala., in a dispute. Ho then took hor
body into tho woods about a mile inland,
piled brush on it and poured korosene
over it and burned the body. Tho negro
was jailed and confesses the crime.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
overruled tho petition for a hearing in the
case of John J. CorAolison vs. Common*
wealth. This is Cornelison's last resort
to ovado the punishment decreed against
him for assaulting with a cowhide Judgo
Richard Roid, in Mount Sterling, in May,
18S4.
The pro spects for tho peach crop in
Kentucky are good; also for other fruits
to the extont of their culture.
Fruit raisers in Louisiana aro sanguine
as to the prospects for good crops. Early
vegetables aro in excallent condition.
Reports from various portions of Mis.
sissippi give good promise for abundant
crops of all kinds of fruits in tho absence
of future adverse conditions.
Tennessee correspondents agree on the
good prospect for the coming peach crop,
and in locations whors small fruits are
given attention largo returns are looked
for. Much attention is being paid in some
sections to tomato culture.
Late frosts have materially lessened the
truck gardeners' "prospects in Alabama,
and the soason will be, as a rule, an un-
profitable ono. Fruits promise only a
moderate return.
Ioe factories are preparing for business.
A syndicate of Cincinnati capitalists has
Just purchased tho Soddy Coal Company's
property in Hamiltou County, Tenn., com-
prising more than ft>000 acres of mineral
and farming lands. The price paid in not
known, but it is understood to have boon
nearly half a million dollars. E. Z immor-
inan, the president of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company, ia
one of the principal stockholders.
The real-ostate transfers at Louisville,
Ky., last we.ik amounted to$1,321,000, and
the recorder's clerks were two weeks
behind in their work. It is fifteen years
since a similar movement in res* property
MANNINGS' SUCCESSOR.
Bon. Chae. 8. Fairchild to Succeed Nonro-
tary Manning In President Cleveland's
Cabinet—A Brier Sketch of the New Sec-
retary.
Washington, April 1.—It was officially
announced from tho White House yester-
day evening that Charles S. Falrehild, of
Now York, will bo appointed to-day Sec-
retary of the Treasury, and Isaac May
nard, of New York, Assistant Secretary
of tho Treasury.
Treasurer Jordan's successor has not
yet been determined upon, and probably
will not be announced for somo days. Mr.
Theodore Cook, of Cincinnati, is spoken of
most frequently in connection with tho
place, and to-night is thought most likely
to succeed Mr. Jordan.
biographical.
Charles Stebbins Fairchild was born a Cazeno
vip, N. Y., April 80, 1842, and his position as a
Cabinet Minister linds him in the prime of life
and well fitted for the onerous laborfi as head ol
the ilnancial department of tho Government. Hi*
father was for many years the attorney for the
Now York Central railroad, and is one of the
eminent men of New York. The new Secre-
tary of Treasury received his early education
at tho Methodist Seminary at Cazenovia, and
he entered Harvard in 1859, graduating from that
Institution with the cla-^s 1803. He thon en-
tered tho Harvard law sohool and was admitted
to tho bar in 1805, and subsequently became
one of tho firm of Hart, Hale, Swartz & Fair
child, one of the most successful legal combi-
nations in Now York. In 18V4he was appointed
deputy Attornoy-Goneral, and in his first polit-
ical position ho so distingulshod himself, that
in the ensuing yoar ho was nominatod by the
Democratic party for the Attorney Generalship
and was elected. Ho served in thin
capacity for two years, and they wore
eventful ones for tho people of New York, be-
cause the alleged canal ring woro receiving the
attention of Governor Tilden, and his Attorney-
General cordially seconded his offorts to rid the
State of them and thoir methods. Upon the
expiration of his term as Attorney-General,
Mr. Fairchild, in 1878, visited Europe for the
second time, his first trip having occurred in
1871. Whilo on tho continent, the future
secretary made a careful study of the monetary
systems ot tho Old World, and when he re-
turned to New York ho had acquired a valuable
fund of information.From 1880, when ho returned
from Europe, up to the time ho
was called to Washington as As-
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
Fairchild was practicing his profession in New
York City. The new secretary is a very
straightforward man of business, easy of ac-
cess, for it has been his boast since he came to
Washington that his door has always been
open to callers, no matter what their business
was, and in this respect ho has shown a
marked difference from othor officials of tho
new administration. His face is round and
smoothly shaven, a closely clipped blacl:
moustache boing conspicuous above the firm,
closed mouth, whilo in stature he is slightly
above tho medium height, compactly built,
and weighs about one hundred and eighty
pounds.
Secretary Fairchild is a firm believer in the
efficacy of equestrian cxercise. and every after-
noon at the close of business he mounts his
smart bay roadster and rides at a canter
through tho suburbs of Washington as an ap-
petizer for dinner. Socially, be and his wife
are very popular, and his hospitable mansion
has always been thronged during tho ga*
,A POET GONE.
Death of John Godfrey Saxe, the Well*
Known Poet, at Albany, N. Y.—A Short
Sketch of His Carrer s Lawyer, Journal-
ist and Poet*
Albany, N. Y., April 1.—John Godfrey
Saxe, the poet, died here yesterday. The
burial will take place in the Greenwood
family lot in Brooklyn.
John Godfrey Saxe was a native of
Highgate, Franklin County, Vt., where
he was born Juno 3, 1816. Graduating at
Middleburg College in 1839, he commenced
the study of law and was admittod to the
bar at St. Albans In 1843 and prac-
ticed in his nativo county for seven
yoars. In 1850 ho became ed-
itor and proprietor of tho Burlington
Sentinel, and he remained in charge of
that paper until 1856, when ho was made
State attorney. In 1849 and 1850 he was tho
candidate of the Democratic party for
Governor of Vermont.
He began writing poems at an early
age, and his first collection, published in
Boston in 1849, has passed through over
forty editions. His other published works
are: "Progress; 'a Satire," published in
New York in 1846; "Now Rape of the
Look," published in 1847; "The
Proud Miss McBride," in 1846;
"The Times," in 1849; "The Money
King; and Other Poems," 1859; "Clever
Stories of Many Nations," 1864; "The
Masquerade and Other Poems," 1866;
"Fables and Legends in Rhyme," 1872;
complete "Red Line," illustrated edi-
tion, 1874, and "Leisure Day Rhymes,"
1875.
Mr. Saxe died at the residence of his
only son, Charles Saxe. He had been
practically a recluso for the past ten
years, the many family bereavements
which he sufCered uudermining his reason
to some extent.
FINALLY SETTLED.
CALIFORNIA'S SENSATION.
Klssane's Identity with William K. Rogers
a Wealthy Sonoma County Ranch Owner,
Pretty Clearly Established—An Advent-
urous Career, Covering Many Years,
Coming to Light.
San Francisco, April 4.—At last tho
mystery is solved and the question, "Who
is Kissane?" that set tho city by tho oars
for tho past week is answerod. William
Kissane is known here as Wm. K. Rogers,
a wealthy farmer of Sonoma County.
Thore aro many strongly romantic feat-
ures in tho story, not tho least remark-
able being the fact that Kissano has a
brother living in San Francisco under an-
other name, and who is ono of her most
influential citizens. It is this brother's
influence, embracing as it does railroad
and legal and masonic circles, that has so
effectually stopped tho publication of
tho expose. Although tiio name was
known Friday night, and although it is
known that more than one paper had tho
full story in typo, not ono word wa«
printed Saturday morning, and, in tho
evening the New York dispatches con-
corning tho matter woro suppressed. A
German paper—The Demokrat—alono
broke the compact of silcnce.
Klssane's story is this: Ho had a shoo
factory in Cincinnati In 1853, which burned
down in a mysterious manner one night.
The firo ulso destroyed an adjoining soap
factory of Popo & Cordor, bringing the
families of tho members of this firm to
beggary. A son-in-law of Popo named
Darr camo to California a fow yoars ago,
recogniznl Kissane, and notified the
Chemical Bnnk. After tho fire Kissano
and others chartered the steamer Martha
Washington, and ostensibly loaded her
with boots and shoes. During her trip the
steamer was destroyed by firo, several
lives boing lost. Charges of mur-
der and arson followed. Kissano
joined Walker's Nicaragua expedi-
tion, deserted in 1861, and went
to Virginia City, Nov. There ho entered
The Succession to the Secretaryship of
\ pa^Ip^ a
and judge Maynurd a. A.»l»ta.t. ! who recently diod in the poor-houso,
XT * o Tha p.M>airinnt and Henderson, now a wealthy man of
ye^M"y ™«netPthe commUston? * | lnC0°U "month
Charles 8. F. irehild as Secretary of the • »■»«. Wl»«T 115,000 a month,
Secretary
Treasury and Isaac H. Maynard as Assist-
ant Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon tho
discharge of his now duties. He was
sworn in at eleven o'clock by a notary
public employed in tho secretary's office,
which soon made them ritrti. Rogers,
with his share, bought the old Surf estate,
near Sonora, and settled down Into
country life. As to W. K. Rogers, ho be-
come a friend of Colonel Petor Donohuo,
and was associated with him In rail-
puono euiptoyou m uus. awrotary ■a uu.ee, , building in ]873. H0 became county
and took possession of the office and desk ,Bnt of
formerly occupiod by ex-Secretary Man-
ANOTHER EXPRESS ROBBERY.
ARobbor. Slngle-^Handed, Attacks,\youml •
and Robs Expremt McHsenger I.akc on th •
West Shore Roa<l—Only About #800
Rooty Secured by the Miscreant.
Rome, N. Y., March 81.—A special to tho
Sentinel from Frankfort, N. Y., s.iys Ex-
press Messenger Lake, who was robbod
between Clark's mills and Frankfort lasl
night, reached here about midnight and
was able to proceed to the office of i«
physician, where his wounds were
dressed. He was shot in the upper part
of the right arm, tho ball passing around
the shoulder, causing an ugly wound.
The doctors probed for tho ball, but were
unable to locate it. Lake endured tho
operation heroically without chloroform.
Ho was weak from the shock and loss ol
blood, but walked to the station and took
the half-past three o'clock train for Al-
bany.
On his way home to Sharon Springs ho
stated to a correspondent that soon after
his train left Clark's mills a man entered
his car through the side door, which he
shoved back, saying as ho ontored:
"Throw up your hands." Lake did not
realise for tho instant what was up, and
failed to comply with tho command. The
intruder leveled his revolver at the mes-
senger and shot him. Lake fell to the
floor of the car, whon his assailant said:
"Now, damn you, whon I tell you to
hold up your hands again you will do it
won't you?"
Tho follow then bound the hands and
feet of Lake and gaggod him. One of his
logs the robber tied to tho safe. The
desperado then took a bunch of keys from
tho pocket of tho messenger and unlocked
tho safe, which he riflod of Its money
packages. Tho amount secured is be-
lieved to havo boen $700 or fSX). The
robber left the car at thoDelawaro, Lack-
awanna & Western crossing at Utica,
where all trains como to a stop before
going to the depot. Boforo loaving the
car the robber said to Lako:
"Damn you, if you say any thing about
this I'll come back and kill you."
The messenger replied: "You wouldn't
rob a man, then kill him, too, would you if"
"Yos, I would," replied the robbor, as
he left.
Lako tried to free himsolf, but did no'
succeed. At Utica his car was dpenoi
and ho was relieved from his uncomfort-
able position. At this place it was deter-
mined that he had better stop over and
havo his wounds attended to.
The messenger says his assailant was a
large, strong man, woaring a mask that
hung down over his chest. His hair wa t
out vory short at tho bae'e, and his hand i
were calloused, hard and dirty.
A Big Railway Project.
Boston, March 31.—The Adverti»er says
It is reported that tho Union Pacific has a
roject on foot to build a now line from
Laramie Wy. T., south to tho Colorado
Jtate line, where it can effect a union with
tho Colorado Western and continuo the
road through to Salt Lake City. The two
corporations will act under the title ol
the Union Pacific & Colorado Western
railway, with a capital stock of 16,000,000,
divided into shares of tl,0J0. A com-
pany has boen formed with
officers and direotors, as follows:
Charles Francis Adams, president; Ellsha
Atkins, vice-president; F. L. Amos, fill.
Callaway, Gordon Dexter, Sydney Dil'.oi
and Ksra H. Bakor. Henry McF«»*iano! i
the seoretary and treasurer.
ning. Tho officers and many of tho clerks
of tho department waited upon him early
and extended their congratulations. Tho
crowd becamo so great that he was com-
peted to abandon for a time all idea of at-
tending to the current work claiming his
attention. He caused a temporary halt by
announcing that ho would receive his offi-
cial friends informally in the afternoon,
after he had disposed of all his mall. Ho
received a profusion of flowers and con-
gratulatory letters and telegrams from
all parts of the country. Tho majority of
the telegrams were from bankers and
business men.
Judge Maynard will not qualify as as-
sistant socrotary before Monday, as ho
desires to dispose of some business now
ponding in tho Second Comptroller's
offlco. In accepting his new office, he will
suffer a loss of 1500 a year in his salary.
Ho makes the change at tho personal
solicitation of the President and Secre-
tary Fairchild, with the latter of whom
he enjoys the closest pei aonal relations.
COERCION IN IRELAND.
Resolutions Adopted on the Subject by
the Senate of the Empire State.
Albany, N. Y., April 1.—Mr. Murphy
introduced the following in the State Son-
ate to-day, and it was temporarily tabled:
Whehbas, The English Government is again
about to resort to cruel and ooerolve measures
in its treatment of Irish affairs, madly propos-
ing to so far forget itself and the rights of its
subjects as to seek to infringe upon the great
bulwark of English liberty-—the right of trial
by jury—in seeking to enact a law by whioh
Irishmen may be dragged from their homos
and tried bofore English juries for alleged
politioal offenses; and,
Whereas, The history of centuries proves
that England's government of Ireland has been
one ot oppression and misrule, and England is
alone responsible for the alleged lawlessness
which she now seeks to repress by cruel and
coercive legislation; and,
Whereas, We believe that home rule is tho
only balm for tho wounds of unfortunate Ire-
land, and the only guarantoo for the peace and
prosperity of that distracted country; there-
fore,
Resolved, That this Senate does hereby pro-
test in the name of humanity against tho on-
actment of the proposed Coercion bill by the
English Government, and send greetings to
Rt. Hon, Wm. E. Gladstone and Charlos Stew-
art Parnell in their noble and humane effort to
prevent such oruel, unjust and tyrannloal, leg-
islation as that proposed by the British minis-
try, and in their endeavor to seoure for Ireland
the inestimable boon of homo rule.
The resolution was afterward taken up
and unanimously adopted.
A TERRIBLE TIME.
The People of Calloway County Ky., In
a Terrible State of Alarm over Internal
Commotions In the Earth and Volcanic
Eruptions.
New Concord, Ky., April 1.—The in-
habitants of this vicinity are in a terrible
state of exoitmont owing to volcanio dis-
turbances and eruptions.
For several n ights rumbling noises have
been heard and the ground quaked so
violently that the Inhabitants fear going
to bed and they stand in their doorways
and in the streets anxiously discussing
the situation.
About ten o'olock an explosion occurred
in the direction of Stinger's Bluff, two
miles from here, whioh was followod by a
column of fire shooting two hundred feet
skyward. A pandemonium beggaring de-
scription followed. Men, women and
children fell upon their knees and began
praying and screaming for mercy. Horses
and cattlo went wild with fright, and ran
plunging and kioking iu the most frantic
manner. Fowls flew from their roosts,
and all nature was in an uproar.
The explosions oontlnue at intervals,
and columns of fire shoot up without any
abatement of vigor.
No nearer approach to the bluff can be
made than a quarter of a mile, on account
Of the intense heat There is a stream
of lava flowing down the eastern side of
the bluff.
The people are simply wild withterroc
—Could Be Driven to It.—"Come
Bobby,11 said the old gentleman, "you
must go to church this morning. When
I was a boy of your age I had to go to
church twice every Sunday." "I
spose I'd go to church twice every
Sunday, too," said Bobby beginning
to get ready, "if I had to."
supervisor, was mi Jo president of the
board in 1875, and has served without in-
terruption evor since.
Though the present disclosure is tho
first in the nature of a public sonsation, it
is by no moans tho first with which ho has
been threatened. In a quarrel with tho
Sonoma County papor, in 1879, Rogers'
career was hinted at, and from what can
be learned the old man has been pretty
freely bled. Ho is a big, tall follow, car-
rying his years and oxperionco wonder-
fully well, lives In good stylo, and is
father of two children and stop-father to
two grown-up daughters, having married
a widow. He enjoys tho reputation of be-
ing un extremely charitable and most In-
dulgent parent.
Kissane's family roaches from high to
low. At tho top stands tho oxtromoly
prominent citizen roforrod to, noii*fc0mos
Rogers, and last comes a teamster also
living in San Francisco who still keeps tho
name of Kissane. Tho eldest Kissano
married twice, his second wife boing the
mother of the influential citizen referred
to, so that between him and Rogers half-
brotherhood only exists.
a suit for blackmail—kiss ane's brother.
New York, April 4.—Tho officors of tho
Chemical Bank havo received a telegram
from General Darr, who is In SanFuin-
cisco, informing them that he had revoalcd
tho identity of Kissano in that city. To a
reporter Mr. J. E. Parsons, of tho bank,
subsequently acknowledged that Wm. K.
Rogers was tho assumed namo of Kis-
sano. Tho president of the bank, George
G. Williams, said: "Tho man has not re- ~-
formed. Half of his criminality in tho
past has not been told, and his career in
California has not boen entirely free from
dishonor." Mr. Williams would not say
any thing definitely as to tho offenses
committed by Kissano in California, ex-
cept to intimato that when last hoard
from ho had boon on a "sproo," and that
his domestic lifo was not without stain."
General Darr has taken somo initiative
stops toward bringing an action against
Mr. J. B. Hart in San Francisco for libel-
ous utterances concerning himsolf in as-
cribing his motive iu connection with Kis-
sano to a desire to lovy blackmail.
Mr. J. B. Hart,the San Francisco lawyer,
was again interviewed yesterday,and cool-
ly denied thatWm. Kissane Is at present
known in California undor tho namo of
William K. Rogers. If Kissano had been
in Nicaragua, ho said, as a mombcr of
General Walker's expedition, he did not
know it.
Tho reporter informed Mr. Hart that
General Darr had telographed to tho
Chemical Bank that he had revealed Kl s-
s a no's identity. Mr. Hart replied:
"Well if that is so suit will bo brought
against General Darr in tho morning for
blackmail."
One of tho points in the strango history
which received fresh emphasis yesterday
was the original statement concerning the
brother of Kissane mentioned above, who
is said to bo a very prominent lawyer, re-
siding in San Francisco.
While the position which William Kis-
sane has achieved in California is said to /
havo been greatly exaggerated by rumor*
and imperfect report, that of his brother
is declared to be really a groat doal
superior, both in a social and political
sense. Tho lawyor is a man to whom
other men look up with the highest re-
spect—a leader in the bost private circles,
and the possessor of immense wealth.
Having gained these facts in advance,
tho reporter asked Mr. Hart concerning
them. He did not hesitate to confirm tho
story as above related, although ho, of
course, firmly declined to give tho name
of Kissane's brother.
"What is his rank as a lawyerl" was
asked.
"He is one of the three or four foremost
lawyers of California," was the reply.
"Has he hold political office?"
"Yes."
"Has he ever been on tho bench!"
"No."
"Why did he assume a difforent name
than that of his brother!"
"Why, to protect himself from the con-
sequences of the possible exposure of the
latter."
A Hew Coal Combination.
Pittsbuboh, Pa., April 1.—Thirty-one
prominent ooal operators of this district,
have formed a combination that will very
likely have an Important influence with the
future ooal trade west- of Pittsburgh. The
organisation will be known as the Pitts-
burgh Railroad Coal Association. Its
members ship one third of all the ooal for-
warded from the distriot by rail. Mr.
Bobbins, of the Pan Handle, is president,
A Close Match.
Jaokson, Mich., April 8.*—A walking
match for 12,000 between Frank Hart, of
Fall River, Mass., and W. A. Hoagland, of
Auburn, N. Y., for fifteen miles, Hart
given one-half mile start, took plaoeatthe
Assembly Hall last night before an im-
mense assemblage, Hart winning the race
by four laps. A large amount of money
changed hands. In the ninth mile
innrPa riffht. 1«d" was badlv swollen..* ^
1
A
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was badly swollen^ r\pA
jep his paoo, bj*ft ** SaVr <A
land's right leg
was unable to keep
In the race until
3:!t5. A little over
the first h
the
Butter, butter, nice and fair; how
I wonder what you are. Are you real
ly what you soemP Were you made
ol grease or oreamP—BotUm PotL
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