Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-12-24


chains off your body shall have chair
, put on his by your prejudice or ignt
rance" .
Wiltshire addressed the jury brieh
on behalf of Rerdell.
The Offering of testimony was the
begun.
WASHINGTON, Dec. o. 2.-There ap
pears to have been a good reason TO
the Riddleberger-M -McCarty duel no
taking place. McCarty is dead shot
Young Malone, who is about the Sena
tor : great deal. said to-day that hi
father sent for Riddleberger. and sale
to him: "This duel business will have
to stop right of. 1 have made big
fight ia Vireinia, and have carried my
point with difficulty. Do you suppose
for one moment am going to allow you
to go out and have vacancy made IN
the United States Senate by McCarty s
bullet, just as sure as you get In line
with McCarty's PISTOL you are dead
man. l would have no objection to
your being shot as an individual, my
dear Riddleberger, but under the cir
cumstances l have good deal more use
for you on this earth than l have OFT
from it. So restrain yourself, my dear
boy" Riddleberger accepted this ad-
vice
New YORK, Dec %. Rev. Father
Healy, who gives Christmas tableaux
and pantomime annually at st. Ber-
nard's Church, Fifth avenue, is re-
ported to have said regarding the
Passion Play, that he should be op-
posed to the forthcoming production of
it in this city. He had not heard that
Archbishop Alemany, of San Francisco,
had sanctioned its production on the
stage there. eff it is done reverently
and sympathetically,' he said, 6 l am
not prepared to say its effect would not
be good but l should object to the
production Of such a subject otherwise.
Father Healys drama of The Ndtirify
is in eight acts. 1t is played by mem
bers of the parish in the basement of
the church, and this year will run from
Christmas to January IN for the bene.
ut OF the church.
CHICAGO, Dec. % 22-Agents OF express
here report the Christmas
rush this year greater than usual. The
American Express Company is handling
200 tons of freight daily, chiefly send
ing it west. Business is twenty-five
Tho |
employees of the company who handle
the packages note this popularity about
-he business The first packages, sur
missed by them to be Christmas pres
snts, came fiom California, and were
destined for the East. Each succeeding
lay has brought them in larger patches
rom points nearer at hand. Wednes.
lay the bulk of business came from
Iowa. and yesterday it was, as it con-
inued to be to-day, from this city and
he adjacent country.
CHICAGO, Dec. %. A train on the
branch of the New York,
erie & Western railroad ran off the
rack on the trestle near the river
ridge, ahou. mile south of Carroll
on, yesterday. Two passenger coaches
nd caboose went over the trestle,
alliDg about eight feet and being badly
mashed. The engine and baggage.car
assed over safely. A stringer on the
restle raised from its place and ran
trough the front passenger coach, {
lostly occupied by ladies'. 1t fortu-
ately passed down the aisle. doing
cry little damage. Conductor John
'srnes and Thomas Sheehan of Wells.
lille were thrown through a window :
nd seriously hurt. The passengers l
ere badly shaken up, but no bones !
ere broken. l
FRANKFORT, KY, Dec. % Gov .
nor Blackburn says he did not disre.
ard the resolution of the Legislature
bout pardons issued, but that the in
,stigation occurred az directed, and
lie result is in writing in the vaults of
e State Mansion. He also says the
lmber of pardons is placed at only
,out half of those he actually issued,
by the resolution and action of the !
legislature he was compelled to issue
me 800. and in the case OF one mob, A
me 400 NOR. These and others v
nount to some 1000 additional. He 6
vs. he will pardon 5000 more if salts.
,tory reasons are given hun.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23-A dispatch
I'm Exeter, England, says: ''An ex.
osion occurred at Thomas's petroleum
,res this morniug, causing a great y.
g, which has already destroyed sew. 2,
Al business buildings and adjoining tt
uses. The flaming oil ran swiftly =
ing the shores of the canal, setting r
8 to the shipping. One brig, an. +
ored in the canal, was entirely con.
med. The fire Is still burning Iiercely.
'er 60, OO0 gallons of blazing oil ran \
20 the river Exeter, lighting up the 4
ores on both sides. More shipping is "
reateuei. r.
New YORK, Dec. 23.-Professor st
'ung of Princeton College gives re. F
Its as far as ascertained OF recent ob- to
'vations throughout the country of N
e traGsit of Venus. He says they
re successful beyond expectation.