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National Republican., 1883-04-02
POLICE CHANGES.
Maj. Brock and Lieut.. EclSloT Retired
@ Other Changes TO Follow.

Maj. Brock and Lieut.. EcllOn Retired
q Other Changes to Follow.
The work of rcorganizating the police
force has commenced in earnest. On Satur.
day Maj. Dye Informed Lieut.. Adolphus
Eckloff that he had been instructed by the
commissioners to request his resignation.
The lieutenant declined to comply, and adj
dressed note to the superintendent, in which
he referred to tho fact that he had been ON
tho force for twcnty-one years; had been
born and raised in the city; had
raised family of ten children here,
and had always performed his duties as an
officer to tho best of his ability; for all of
which reasons he thought he ought not to be
dismissed without hearing. Before this
letter had been delivered, however, the board
passed an order dispensing with his services
from date.
Lieut. EclSloff has never been connected in
any way with the charges Of crookedness pre-
ferred against his subordinates but the fact
that such things could have gone on as are
known to have gone on, without protest from
him and apparently without his knowledge,
has been sufficient to convince the commits
sioncrs and the new chief that he is not the
man for the place he holds. For this and this
alone he was removed.
Yesterday Mai. Dye assumed full command
of the police force, the commissioners having
accepted Mai Brooks resignation. The major
delivered up his badge and took formal leave
Of those about headquarters with whom he
had been for so many years associated. The
feeling in regard to Mai. Brock is about the
same us that toward Lieut.. Eokloh, only there
is perhaps u moro kindly regard for the late
superintendent because he was possibly more
generally known.
IL is believed that other changes will shortly
follow, and that the work of purifying head
quarters is not yet complete.
A visit to the different station houses was
made last night by u REPUBLICAN reporter,
and IL was found TINT some of the licutenants
were upon the anxious bench, not knowing
but their turn would come next All of them
however, said that they believed they had
done their duty to the bost of their ability
Lieut.. Arnold said that he did not think il
likely the district would want any change in
his place
Going down town the reporter met crowd
of lawyers, policemen and others who were
discussing the action Of Saturday, and who
were of tho opinion that it was simply the
beginning of a thorough change in the person
mel of the police force. In reply
to question as to who would
go first, one Of them thought
that Iiouts. Johnson, of the second pre-
cinct, Noonan, detailed at police court tC
collect fines, and Greer, of the sixth precinct
would he among the first, and that Lieut.
Arnold would follow rs soon rs the new com
missoncrs got to him. Several other less i'm
portant changes were talked of, mostly con
fined to the ranks.
National Republican., 1883-04-02
PERSONAL.

Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer has
gone 10 New York.
Miss Truman, New York, and Mr. Auguste de
Bocanndi, Paris, are ut Welckers.
Third Assistant Postmaster General HnZen is
still confined TO his house with a severe cold.
Bishop Keene, of Richmond, viii sail for
Europe April TO visit the Pope. lie will be abb
sent several months,
MIR. J, Q. New, assistant secretary of tho treas
ury, Loft here Saturday afternoon for indianapolis,
He will be gone about week
George C. Lees, Philadelphia; p. NJ. Petit, Plnoy
Point; /. Il. Norris, Il. Freeman, w. y. Belley,
Charles county, are at the 81, Mare
Rev. J, j. Mcdonald, wateryille, N. y; Rev. L.
Il. o'Connor, Clayyille, n. y; H. Il. Kent, J, d..
Warren, Providence, X. l., are at thest. James.
Mr., David Q, Bangs, so we'll known in this city
Us Il prominent elOcuuOnist, has become stenu.
graphic correspondent Of tho Brown Chemical
company az Baltimore, Md.
S. NJ Felker Chcagoi Col. D. r. Davidson,
Pittsburgh Hon. B. Wilson, West Virginia; Col
Henry Porter, Pennsylvania George Il De We're
and daughter, New York; and Col. j. w. Fairfax
Virginia, are at the National
National Republican., 1883-04-02
Shot by a POLICEMAN.

Early Saturday morning Special Officer
Benjamin Klopfer, in attempting to arrest
Romeo Herbert colored thief on street,
near Thirteenth northwest, dropped his pis.
tol on the pavement and il discharged, the
ball entering Herberts right breast and en-
tering the lung, intlicting serious and per-
haps fatal wound. Herbert ran OIL but was
subsequently discovered in an old boat on the
river and sent to Freedman's hospital, where he
now lies in precarious condition. KlopfeT
was charged in the police court Saturday with
assault aud battery with intent to kill, and
released in $500 bonds to appear on Wednes'
day,
National Republican., 1883-04-02
ConneII,s snsnensIon.

The commissioners on Saturday afternoon
passed the following: "Ordered, that Private
John Connell metropolitan police force, is
hereby suspended from duty pending the in
vestigation Of charges made against him, such
suspension being governed as to compensation
by the order of Nov. 20, 1882"
The young lady whom Mr.. Connell is
charged with having seducod made affidavit
when she was supposed to be near her death,
in which she denied that Connell had ever
acted toward her other than as an honorable
man.
The mother of the girl is said TO have
treated her with undue severity, and it is
also stated that she has preferred the charge
against Conncll mt the instance ofa woman also
employed at the government printing office
who is uniricndly toward her daughter.
National Republican., 1883-04-02
GENERAL spORTING NOTES.

GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.
No pools will be sold Mt Jerome park this
year.
Blair claims that Maud s. will lower her
record this year.
The empress of Austria is one OF the best
fencers in Europe.
Rowell is training in England for twelve
hour six day race.
Mr.. p. Lorlllard will add 5000 to the
LorillaTd stakes for 1886 now open.
Monmouth has 953 entries and Saratoga 77s
entries for the racing season of 1883
Mr.. p. Lorllard has added a number Of
prairie chickens to his game preserves in New
Jersey.
Tho Waverly's will play tho Cleveand's
at the new grounds, Ninth and s streets, on
April T.
Romeo the four-yoar-o brother of Moultor,
has beon sold to an Italian nobleman for stud
purposes.
Slugger Sullivan's benefit in Boston netted
him $1,000. Who will speak now of intel
lcCtual superiority
Chick Adams, of Hudson, n. " offers to
bet 1900 that Sullivan cannot knock him out
in a sparring match.
Purses aggregating $4,000 in May, and
100000 III August, are offered by the POugh-
kGepsle Driving Park association for its trot-
ting meetings,
The Waterloo cup, valued at 80 500, for grey
hounds, was won by Mr. G. j. AloXander's
bitch Wild Mint by lIaddo out of Ora, Sixty
four dOPs ran,
Pat Perry, the light weight champion of
England, Is ON his way to this country TO fight
Cherries Norton, of Newark, N. j., for the
is.$woight championship Of the world.
~ fhctitlv ofUnGteur champion to be decided at
tho regatta Of the national association is be-
lieyed to lay between Murphy, of Boston
Laing of Montreal, aud COncy, of Portland,
Mai. B. q. Thomas's Queen Ban Is looked
upon as II winner Of the Kentucky Derby by
many horsemon. In her two-year-old form
at tho Greenbrier White Sulphur springs aad
National Republican., 1883-04-02
Fire Inst Nieht,

Last night about 1890 o'clock an alarm was
struck from box -, the occasion being fire
in a stable in the rear of No. 17ls l street
northwest The property belonged to the late
Charles Gordon and the house is occupied by his
daughters, Mrs. Q. q, Poarce and Mrs. Casey,
widow of the late Gen Silas Casey The fire
is supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary. Engines l, ., and and truck b
responded promptly. Damage $780, covered
by insurance.
National Republican., 1883-04-02

Lexington meeting, last fall she and her sta
bic matc, Pixies Pride, did some good work.
Charles Mitchell, tho champion English
pugilist who arrived In New York last sun
day, is - years old and stands only feet
inches in height According TO Boston
HcydH correspondent hc looks like fashion
able young man u ven holp his beauty
when Sullivan hits uIm
National Republican., 1883-04-02
A PROBABLE MURDER.
One Boy Throws Stone at Another and
Strikes His Temple, Causing Conclusion
OF the Brain.

One Boy Throws Stone at Another and
Strikes His temple, Causing Concussion
OF the Brain.
A white boy named John O'Day, living on
Twenty-ffth street. near X, yesterday struck
n colored boy named William Brown on the
head with rock, and produced concussion
of the brain, which will probably result
fatally. Young O'Day who is rather tall
boy of 10, was returning home from church
about / p. IN. with other boys, who We're
snOwballing each other. One of the snow
balls fell across the street, Mt the corner
of Twenty-flfth and |, in pool of water,
and splashed some Of the water on Brown, who
is Il large boy II or Is years of age. Brown
became infuriated, and rushing across the
street, struck young O'Day in the neck. lie
was then caught by man named Leonard,
but breaking away, again struck the lad, this
time ON the face near the left eye. Mr..
Leonard again grabbed Brown, while young
ODay moved away some distance. Brown
again broke lose and rushed at O'Day, draw
ing pocket knife and saying, "I'll put this
into your liver" raising his hand as ifto cut the
boy in the neck. O'Day stopped and grabbed
paving stone, and when his assalant was
within yard of him, threw it, striking
Brown on the right temple, Telling him at
once, with II fearful cash fully four inches in
length. The wounded boy was removed to
his home, where DR.. Thomas l., Massey at
tended him. He remained unconscious sew
eral hours, and last night DR.. Massey am
nounced that the skullwas not fractured but
that conclusion of the brain had occurred and
that the injury would probably result fatally
Young O'Day was arrested by officer w. j
HabisOn and locked up in the fourth precinct
station.
National Republican., 1883-04-02

lowest 29.395. The highest temperature was
70.3, and the lowest 1i3. Snow fell on
twelve days, and there was ~ inches of un-
melted snow on the ground at the end of tho
month. The prevailing direction of the wind
was northwest, and It's highest velocity 20.
Tho rain during the month was 327.
National Republican., 1883-04-02
supposed 10 Have Been Drowned.

Nothing further was developed yesterday
in regard to the finding of the beaver hat
floating in the canal near Log wall level.
The young man seen in that vicinity wearing
a hat answering the description of the one
found has not been seen since Sunday, tho
eighteenth Of March, and it is supposed that
he fell into the canal and was drowned.
National Republican., 1883-04-02
An Ex-NInyor Hurled.

Hon, Valorious Ebert, ex-mayor Of Fred
erick, Md, and AN old and highly respected
citizen of that place, was buried yesterday,
The funeral was largely attended.
National Republican., 1883-04-02
nI,teoroIouv ror March,

There were six clear days, nineteen fair
days, and six cloudy days In the past mont +.
The highest barometer was 30,57l, and tho
National Republican., 1883-04-02
Boys & Children's Clothing,

enthusiastic young friends stylish nicely
fitting garments bought of that they invariably when this subject
is discussed, indicate their preference for
National Republican., 1883-04-02
School Boys Days +!

OF all the Days that arc in a week
i dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes between
a Friday and a Sunday.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.-On last Tues
day morning two gentlemen. giving
their names as John Gross and William
Grice called at the office of DIR. Keller
and informed him that the former had
been shot. Upon examination it was
found that Gross had been shot in the
LETT arm, the ball entered just below the
point Of the shoulder, the ball passing
through an overcoat and other clothing,
and lodging in the underside of the
arm. It was taken out by DR.. Keller
These men arrived here, they say, from
Harrisburg, Pa, on the south bound
train in the evening and started on foot
to the cave, Instead o. keeping the road
to the cave they went out the N. M. 4
s. turnpike to the point of intersection
with the county road leading up the
river, which road they took. After go.
ing some distance and finding they
were wrong, they turned back and in
the woods near Mr.. J. w. Modesitt's, q
man came into the road from the woods
and ordered them to halt which they re
fused to do. Whereupoh he drew a
pistol and fired, the ball taking effect as
above stated. Altogether the circum-
stances surrounding the case are mys-
FERROUS, and we await further develop
ments before making other comment.
If there are those ia our community
who propose to play highwaymep we
hope they may be discovered and
brought to justice. Nea0s
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30


T have often stated that Hon. John
Paul would be appointed judge of the
Western district of Virginia, and now
havethe best of reasons for asserting that
he will not only be appointed. but that
his appointment will be made at a
very early day. say this in spite of
the fact that ] hear he has gone to
Charlottesville to take dispositions in
the O'Ferrall Paul contest. 1t has been
rumored here that Edgar Allan was to
succeed Captain Wise as United States
District Attorney, and one of his friends
claims that he mas all of the prominent
Readjusters and Republicans of Virginia
for him, except General Malone and
Captain John s. Wise. There will be q
warm contest before the matter is de.
termiDed, but from my standpoint at
present I do not see how Mr.. Allan can
win Wash. Cor. Of Dispatch, jan "a.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

THE SUPREME COURT-THE AMEND
MENTS.-There is in some quarters a
disposition manifested to belittle or ex-
plain away the decision rendered by
the Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday last in the case of Harris,
&c. These attempts to explain away
an important and far-reacbing decision
are based upon the superstition that the
decision does not touch the question of
the right of negroes to intermarry with
whites, to demand accommodation at
hotels, to ride on the best seats in rail-
road cars, steamboats,, stages. &C., and
to occupy the most conspicuous chairs
in the theatres and other places of
amusement. AS to the right of negroes
to marry whites the same court will,
it is stated, soon render a decision.
The lew of State forbidding such
marriages brings the case within the
purview of the amendments, which
forbid the States from Going certain
things, and gives the Federal courts the
right to pronounce such law unconsti-
tutional That is all it can do. The
other rights named above, the negro
will have to claim on some other ground
than that they are secu ed by the thir-
tenth, or the fourteenth, or the fif-
tenth amendment, or else he will not
obtain them, so completely are all these
amendments ruled out by the opinion of
Justice Woods, If State law forbade
negroes to be accommodated at hotels,
or to have the best seats in theatres,
cars, and steam boats. then such a law
would give to the Supreme Court of the
United States the right to pass upon
the question of the constitutionality of
such law. But so long as discrimina
tons against negroes are made only by
private individuals, no negro can claim
the protection of the amendments
That, as we understand it. was the i'm
portant question decided by the Su-
preme Court of the United States last
Monday Richmond Dispatch.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

The present Duke of Argyll's grand
father and great grandfather of the
Marquis of Lorne, was at one time q
Fredericksburg merchant. a fact the
average Fredericksburger is very prop
erly quite proud of; and had not the
Marquis passed through their hand
some little city in the nighttime and
.un beknownstn to them. be would no
doubt have been given warm recep-
tion.-RicTnaond State.
We, know nothing of the great grand
father of the Marquis of Lorne. but we
do profess to know something of his
father, the Duke of Argyll, whom we
recognize, by his BOOKS, which we have
read with interest, as one of the most
intellectual men of England. He is a
man of superior intellect. We wonder
how he could acquire so much informa,
ton.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

A correspondent, P. M. H asks the
New York World some questions con
corning Clay's first election to the Sen
ate. John Crittenden, born Septem
Der 10. 1857, was elected to the Senate
in 1917. Clay, as P. M H states, was
elected to the Senate and filled term
of a few weeks in 1906 7, having been
born April II 1777. But Clay is not
the youngest Senator on record, Arm
istead Thomson Mason, of Virginia,
was elected to the Senate in 1915, at the
age of %, end resigned in 1917 to under
take that memorable contest in the
Loudon district with the Federal cham
pion, Charles Fenton Mercer, which
led to several dueIs The most mem-
orable of these duels was the encounter
in which Mason was slain by his near
kiDsman, John Mason McCarty. Nc
Carly had proposed that they join
hands and leap off the roof of the State
House in Richmond. They finally
fought with muskets, and Mason 70
ceived fatal ball in the breast at the
first fire at their meeting near Wash
ington in 1919
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

LEG BRoKEN.-On Friday morning
last, Col. D. H. Lee Mariz, deputy clerk
of the Circuit Court of this county, fell
near the B.g Spring, in this place, and
broke his leg just above the ankle. He
was going to the spring for aptcher of
water, and the ground being exceeding
ly slippery from the sleet of the night
previous. his feet slipped from under
him, throwing him to the ground,
breaking both bones in his leg. He was
carried into d. M. Switzer's residence,
and medical aid summoned. and the
necessary operation performed. and in
the afternoon was conveyed to his home
on South German street, and we are
glad to state is doing well though it
will necessarily be some time before he
will be able to attend to his duties.-
Rockingham Register, Jan. 18th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

HUMAN BONE FoUND-A short time
after Christmas Mr.. VIM. Dean, living
near Goods Store, in this county, was
opossum hunting near Keezletown, and
ran one of those animals into q small
cave in what is known as" Cave Woods, :"
owned by Geo. B. Keezle. Esq. He be-
gan digging for the opossum. and in the
earth was found a bone, which he kept
and gave to Mr.. r. F. Manning, who
thought it resembled greatly the bone of
a human arm. Mr.. Mining had it ex.
amined by Drs. Nef and Williams, of
this place, and they both pronounced it
as being. to the best of their knowledge
and belief, the small bone Of human
arm, leading from the elbow to the
wrist. The bone had the appearance of
being very old, but was exceedingly
hard and perfectly preserved.-Rock-
araQhana Register.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30
jan9-tds Commissioners,

TNRUSTEE'S SALE.-In pursuance of q
l. deed of Trust executed and recorded on
the 22nd day of September, 1882. from e. W.
Shott and Ann Eliza, his vile, TO C. A. Rich
rdson. trustee. the said deed of trust having
been executed for the benefit OF the creditors
of the said E. W. Shott, viii proceed to sell in
front of the Court house. at public auction. on
Saturday, January 1871. 1888, Ts.
the following property, Wis.,
LIST. A certain FRAME HOUSE and LOT on
the Middlebrook road near David Young's, and
adjoining the property of Mrs Riswick and
others,-now occupied by Nat. Thomas.
End. small FRAME HOUSE and LOT on
Stafford Street, adjoining the property of Geo..
.lexander and others,-nOw occupied by A.
White. 49,.
TERMS OF SALE:-One-fourth in cash,-the
remaining, three-fourths in three equal pay
ments at eight, sixteen, and twenty four
months-the deferred payments to bear six per
centum interest from day of sale. with good
notes well endorsed, and vendors lien retained
as ultimate security,
decl2-4t G. a. RICHARDSON, Trustee.
POstpOnement.-The above sale has been
postponed until Saturday, February 24th, 1888.
jan23ttds c. A. RICHARDSON, Trustee.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30


Mr.. BEIRNE's IMMENSE SUGAR
CRoP.-A New Orleans dispatch allud-
ing to the large sugar crop of Louisiana
says:-"On the ten Burnslde's estates,
now the property of Mr.. Oliver Beirne,
of W. Virginia, las settled by the recent
decision of the COURT the total crop will
be nearly $500 hogsheads and the crop
on one place (Riverton) was lost by the
overflow. But for this the crop would
probably have reached $500, 900 pounds.
MoIasses 1900 to 1900 barrels. The
sugar if put in barrels las Is done by
many planters) and placed in straight
line, end to end, would reach over III
miles, and the molasses over six miles
more,U
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

The Lynchburg V5rgimian says "that
Mr.. Tucker knows very well that his
constituents do not demand an increase
of the duty on foreign ores, and that
they want decrease of the duty on
manufactures on iron. 1t should be
sufficient to say that he represents a
Virginia, and not Pennsylvania con
stituency; and that he is more mindful
of the interests of the people he repre-
sents, than he is of the Pennsylvania
furnace men who sent their money down
here to procure his defeat, when a cam
didate for Congress"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-30

Judge Lacy's opinion in the Burks-
Hinton case lie an elaborate attempt to
cover up with legal fustian the idea
which prevails in the minds OF Ma
honeites generally. and in which, it
seems, majority of the Court of APP
peals concurs-that the Constitution of
the State is subordinate to an act of the
Legislature and that both are subject to
the DEGREES of the Malone caucus.
The Constitution (Art. V, Sec. s.
says: 1.-THE Judges shall be chosen b !
the joint vote of the two Houses of the
General Assembly and shall hold their
Office for q term of taOelue gears" In
the face of the plain and unambiguous
words, which stanu uncontradicted and
unrestricted by any other provision OF
the Constitution, either express or i'm
piled, the majority of the Court, in the
case of Judge Burks, decided that he
should only hold has Office for term OF
about eight years, that is, since the
death of Judge Wood Pouldin.
We mean no disrespect to the major
ity of the Court in expressing the belief
that, if Judge Burks had been a Ma
honeite, the obvious Interpretation Of
the Constitutional provision bearing
upon the case would have struck them
as forcibly as it did Judge Lewis.
This is bad beginning for the Su-
preme Court of the State, but as the
majority of its members are uEaccus.
toned to judicial atmosphere. there is
room for Improvement, and it is hoped
when their gigantic intellects come tC
grapple with the Tag tax case, they
may conclude that DR.. Blanton has nc
right to impose a tax of five cents or
every 200 lbs. of fertilizer sold in the
State, and for which there is no war
rant in the Constitution or law.
Should they sustain this arbitrary &C
tion of the State Commissioner of Ag
riculture (by which upwards of a hun
dred thousand dollars year would bt
illegally taken from the pockets of the
farmers not cent of which would &c
into the State treasury it would b
time for the farmers to organize for th'
election of Legislature which would
exercise the power of removal conferred
by Sec. %, Art. vi of the Constitution
- Winchester Times.